Saturday, April 18, 2009

Back for another look 4/18

Sometimes initial success or failure can lead me to incorrectly believe a stream or river fishes a certain way. I returned to creek 1 from April 12th today. Creek 1 is a shallow dynamic stream with plenty of twists and turns. It lined by wooded hills, shale banks, bedrock bottoms, and spectacular collection of different rock. Sadly I know little about them. Have to change that at some point.



Got going about 9am and finally started catching fish at 10:30-11:00. Not too much action and no real size, now I don't know what to think. Flukes, tubes, and crankbaits.


Nice rock outcroppings. Saw a turkey up near the top on the left:


Here is the largest deepest pool I ran across that should have been filled with fish or lacking that a fish. Nada




I'll hit it again with low water and see what topwater has to say about this creek's smallmouth bass numbers. Water was almost crystal clear.

2 comments:

  1. Nice photos, and a healthy looking bass too. Those sure were some plump greenies you had in a recent post. They must have all the food they can stand in that ditch.

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  2. Jim's doing. He's great at finding places to fish. Like an extra set of eyes.

    Retention ponds attached together by ditches. The drains are connected to a creek that sometimes overflows. Fish were never stocked in there. Now filled with crappie, lots of shad, and big largemouth bass.

    I find pond fishing kind of dull. Cast a parallel a couple feet from shore, rinse repeat until you've walked all the way around then repeat. The low visibility ment the LM would sit right on the banks.

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