Wade Fishin

[MsgMills]

Went wade fishing in one of the creeks close to home. Man was it hot outside, my sunglasses were even steaming up so much I couldn't even use them.... Anyway after inspecting the area for snakes, I did manage to see lots of turkey tracks in the sand and several deer tracks along the sandy shore. To the fishing report now... I used a small 1/16th oz spinner bait, that I designed and made for fishin for bluegill and whatever else would bite them. I caught several small sunfish and saw what looked to be one nice smallie about 14 to 16 inches long in the area I was fishin. Couldn't get her to bite and so I moved on down stream. caught a nice goggle eye on my spinner bait and several more sunfish. I switched to a Small Rebel Wee Crawdad Crank bait and caught a small 4" bass on the first cast. The fish hit as soon as the bait hit the water. Started casting the bait up stream and bringing it down, caught several more sunfish, a real nice bluegill and a smallie about 8" long. Kept up throwing the wee crawdad and caught nothing but real small fish. Decided to call it quits since the stream was almost to shallow to fish anyways. Looks like I would have had to of walked for quite a far piece to have gotten to some decent water. But with the heat pushing close to 96 degree's my air condition was calling my name back home and that's where I headed.

Will try another part of the creeks later this week and will give a report. :)

[aceoky]

Sounds like a fun day at any rate, catching fish is much better than NOT catching them :)

[str8 shot]

i love wadin those creeks...if you can find some good decent deep holes some good smallies lives in the streams around here

[huntindawoods]

Sounds like you had a fun day at the water and this would be a day to be in the water wadein, I enjoy wadin the creeks fishing.

[notimlmit]

I'll be heading to a creek tomorrow but my reason will be looking for flint to knap out some arrowheads -- and about the snake part, I will be looking extra hard especially after I got bit Friday afternoon on my finger while weeding around flowers at my house -- don't know what kind of snake it was only seen one other like it while in the woods but it had the markings of a cottonmouth with the white underside -- I know that's not what it was but apparently it was non poisonous because my finger didn't even swell up -- and I was so stunned by being bitten at my house I watched it crawl away into a vent going under my house -- anyway wade fishing is a fun thing to do now to beat the heat, you can lay down in the stream to cool off if need be -- only thing those darn biting flies pester me every time I go to the creeks, may spray down before going

[ptbrauch]

I took the canoe out on Floyds Fork on Memorial Day and had a banner day (at least for that creek). I caught a whole bunch of "fun size" bass (about 10 inches)--both smallies and largemouths; and a couple of smallies that went about 14-15 inches. I also was surprised to catch a bunch of white bass.

Then the following Sunday, I took the canoe and went further up in the headwaters. If i had to pick based on appearance, I would have told you that upstream was the place to go--a lot of cover and deep pools. But the fishing told a different story. I caught a bunch of small sunfish (green sunfish, I think), 1 bluegill, 1 crappie, and a smallie that did make the trip worth it. I'm not sure what was down there, but I caught the smallie in the middle of the creek, in about the middle of the water (depth-wise). From that point on, I tried fishing the middle of the creek and never even got a bite.