Creeking 2023

[CalebConn16]

Exactly add in the fact that they get a good spawn off every 3-7 years it’s a wonder we have good stream smallmouth fishing at all.

As you stated there are much easier and better eating fish out there if anyone is looking for a meal.
Some old heads can’t resist a big string full of smallies for Instagram or the grease.

I hate when spawn hits and it just gets dry. The spawn has a much better chance if we get consistent rain/even flooding once spawn completes. I just wish they would eliminate take all together on streams. Few things in life have pumped me up more than the first 21 inch smallie I caught on topwater. It bothers me to know that the fishery could be 1000 times better if people would abstain from eating smallmouth. A lot of the smallmouth streams near me hold channel cats as well which are much better eating. Hell I catch rainbows all the time in another. Maybe that tradition of keeping smallies will die-off with the old heads

 

[luvtohunt]

Spent a bulk of my youth in knee to waist deep water in Eastern Ky. Fished Troublesome and Ball all my teen years. Had a ball catching smallies. Didn’t keep any cause I liked catching too much but eat a many red eye!!!

 

[mudhole crossing]

Smallmouth are delicious and I love crappie and walleye too. But i don’t access to catch them so….

 

[CalebConn16]

Smallmouth are delicious and I love crappie and walleye too. But i don’t access to catch them so….

I’m sure that you live near a lake, you can catch crappie from the bank anywhere. Carr creek has walleye and I’m pretty sure you can catch them in the spillway. All fish that are sustainable to be caught

 

[mudhole crossing]

I’m sure that you live near a lake, you can catch crappie from the bank anywhere. Carr creek has walleye and I’m pretty sure you can catch them in the spillway. All fish that are sustainable to be caught

I have caught both at carr. Not enough to fool with. Maybe I’m not a good enough fisherman to catch em.

 

[B.M. Barrelcooker]

I have caught both at carr. Not enough to fool with. Maybe I’m not a good enough fisherman to catch em.

Nothing wrong with legally keeping a few smallies to eat. I don’t think anyone is judging especially if you are getting a young one out and teaching.

Now the guys that keep a big stringer with a go pro strapped on just to be an instagraph hero ……those guys can take a hike.

 

[3PointSlayer]

Amish will clean a body of water out quicker than a band of otters.

 

[mudhole crossing]

We usually keep 3-5 a summer. Sometimes none.

 

[mudhole crossing]

Ive put this creeking thread on here for about 4-5 years. The pics that I have posted prolly contained 10-14 fish (smallmouth). That’s not many for that many years. Been catching and eating smallies since the 80s. Same creek, same holes of water.

 

[Meatstick]

Ive put this creeking thread on here for about 4-5 years. The pics that I have posted prolly contained 10-14 fish (smallmouth). That’s not many for that many years. Been catching and eating smallies since the 80s. Same creek, same holes of water.

You're one of the "old heads" referred to lol

 

[barney]

Back in the 70's people wore the creek banks out and kept everything they caught. Didn't hurt one thing that I could tell.

 

[3PointSlayer]

Not sure what an old head is but when I was a teenager a saw a old man loading his boat up when I got to the creek. He had two fish on a stringer that were around 20 inches long. Asked him what those were and he told me musky. I didn’t even know what musky were. I used to see his truck there several times a week on my way home from school. Always wondered how many of those fish he took out of that hole and how bad he hurt it. It was in kinnikonick

 

[3PointSlayer]

So I just googled what an old head is. Never heard that term before.

 

[barney]

So I just googled what an old head is. Never heard that term before.

Old head means someone who crashes the party.

 

[mudhole crossing]

Exactly and I’m fine with that. Just don’t fish this creek if u don’t want to 😂

You're one of the "old heads" referred to lol