Abrams Creek

Ran the Abrams CG down to the lake section for the first time Sat March 10th. Little River gauge was around 3.25ft. Kayaker...historically I paddle class 3-4, with the odd 5 here and there but I love any scenic river, especially wilderness river, no matter what the difficulty. Will come back with my open boat some time in the future. Abrams Creek was beautiful.
The most recent posts have plenty of information about trees due to last year's tornado. I have little to add to their data-- In the areas where the tornado was close or 'In' the creek the overwhelming majority of the trees were blown down parallel to the creekbed...in other words, very few were knocked down such that they would interfere with a boater. On our run there were maybe 4-5 spots where a tree was down across the entire river. In all cases they were easy to see/ID from well upstream and at our water level we could all boof/scrape over them (1 hard boat kayak and 2 duckies). As I recall most of these trees were missing branches, so they looked more like 'logs over the creek' rather than 'trees down in the creek.' The only section, in fact, that I found even slightly 'strainer-dicey' was about a mile (1.5 miles?) below the putin where the main channel was on river left and you had downed trees with branches coming out into the river from both the river left and also the river right.
At 3.2ft the flow was constant. Rapids were mostly class 2's and the pools were not long and not slow. These were not Hiwassee pools (large, very-slow-mowing water)...overall we were kept moving at a pretty constant pace and we completed the entire run in about 3.5 hours (including the lake, to the takeout) with perhaps 20 minutes of stops along the way.
W.r.t the comments about the stretch of class 2-3 rapids about 1 mile above the lake-- yes, it's worth a scout for folks who do not routinely run class 3 rapids. The individual drops were all class 2, perhaps 2+, I'd say, and it's pretty obvious when you're getting into this section as: 1) you'd have been on the run for some time and know that you're close to the end; 2) the river narrows a bit and some small cliffs/rock faces on either side of the creek; 3) the noise of the rapids is enough to make you take notice.