Report:

Steady. Air pressure wacked out today making it a bit slow. I have yet to try a minnow or lure on a spinning rod. I'm using very small jig flies. 1/80 & 1/100 th oz ( in my store on my website are pics of what I'm using). There is not a lot of bait in the water. The minnows that are in there, are very very small. About an inch. 4 lb line is a must right now. Anything over that, is over kill and your catch ratio goes down. I even dropped down to 2 lb line today. With the barometric air pressure all out of whack, the fish were very skittish. As soon as my fly would hit the water they would scatter. I would cast to the opposite bank and drag it into the water, that way they would not spook. Eventually you will find out where they stack up during the day. You need to keep whatever bait you are using in the strike zone for as long as possible. Very very small twitches are needed to keep it there. You got to at least keep the moving a little bit. Pausing too long, causes the fish to be able to study it a little bit longer and he will just swim away. Keeping it moving gets that predatory instinct kicking and they will strike out at it. Please do not cut down trees because they are in your way. Those trees provided shade for the fish. You cut them down, the fish won't hold there anymore. That was a moronic thing to do, Who ever you are. And pick up your trash. I know its not y'all. Just sayin.

And the results:



Then a client called me wanting to come play. I told him it was a bit slow and he decided to come anyways. First cast produced a fish.





He was catch and release today. In 2-3 hours he landed 20-25 solid fish on the fly rod. Fun times. And this is only the start!

Here is the jig I'm using.

1/80 oz.



The bait in the creek is very small, so match the hatch. I'll just add a split shot above the hook 6-8 inches under a float.

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I didn't get a call. LOL

Report: Slowish today.

Got to the water and handed my client a fly rod. He said he didn't know how to use it. I said that's why you are here today. I only had to show him one time how to do it. After that I never critiqued him. Picked it up like a pro.



If we don't get rain soon, I'll have to merge into the boat and take boat trips this spring. Not much fishable water this year. 10 people is to many this year -so far. Running out of fish too. These came up on the flood in December during that warm misting rain. Need a fresh batch to come up. And along with the Professional Landscape Company Wannabies that keep cutting the trees down so they can cast without effort. That's pissin me off and the wardens are watching for who ever is doing it. He said if he catches the person or sees anyone cutting bushes, tress, or anything else destructive, its a free ride to county jail. No ticket. Zero tolerance. -Overhang trees provide shade for the fish to hide during sunny days.

My photobucket app won't turn my photos the right way so I'll wait till they fix the bug till i post pics.

A bit slow with front coming. One of my guys had to leave at 9 am, due to his employee ran company truck into a building. He was almost at his limit. As he left, 5 mins later, the fish stopped almost cold. 1 fish every 5-10 mins after that. They would bite in spurts. The whole school would turn on at the same time and everyone would hook up. Had a lot of triples going on when we first showed up. We flyfished and used spinning gear. One spot, the fish had come up on their sides, up a 1.5 inch rapid and laid up in a 3 ft long by 1 ft wide, 8 inch deep hole. Amazing. Just like salmon. If it floods this weekend, u will be able to blind cast and catch them at creeks x y and z. All we need is for the water to rise 3-5 ft constant for 5 plus hours and the fish will push way way up the creeks. The run is almost over. Less than 2 months left.

Went out this morning and just hammered them 25 sandies in just 43 min. Using artificial was best fishing the middle of the water column

Previous trip.

Fly fished half the time and spin fished half the time. Air pressure shut the creek down bad mid morning. We could see the fish, but they didn't want to move. When that happens, only live minnows will trigger a bite to complete a limit. Otherwise it's a fish every 10-15 mins or so when the weather is wacky.





4 lb line #6/#8 bait hook 1/32 oz split shot 6-8 inches off the bottom.

If the split shot is any closer, the minnow can't get away from the blue gills and they peck its eyes out and kill it. That's why your minnows come back w/o eye balls. When that happens just push the split shot up the line a bit more so the minnow can swim around more and get out if the way of the blue gills.

Every 1 minute, lift your rod tip up a foot and drag the minnow. Then hold it there again and repeat. The minnow will try and hide under a leaf or stick preventing the game fish from finding it. Dragging it so often prevents it from hiding in stuff and when u move the minnow he starts wiggling again triggering a predatory instinct bite. Small minnows are working better than medium minnows right now. Main reason is the bait in the creek is very small, 1 inch baby schools of minnows. Match the hatch. Baby bass assassins are a great sized jig right now on 1/32 oz jigs.

Dang Carey going thru withdraw time to head to the creek! Great report and pics!

Report: Half way through the trip, I decided, we needed to reschedule. 100's of fish 5 ft in front of us. Landed 10 maybe. I have no clue why they were lock jawed today. Everything was perfect. The fish were SUPER spooky. Lure or fly, hits the water, fish go nuts and start zipping around the pool spooking. They just never settled in. Afternoon bite should be better from 5- dark.

That happens! All the graphs and charts and weather theories there may be, sometimes the fish don't bite -- even when you think they will.

Keep at it! You'll get them sooner or later!!

Thanks for the report Carey.
I was out at the creek with the fly rod yesterday and didn't get a bite. But I did l FINALLY learn how to cast that fly line 60 feet. Quite an accomplishment to me --LOL--

WOW 60 ft on the fly rod? This I gotta see, PlanoKeith! I cant even throw 50ft on my baitcast! But fishing line on a soda can, I can do 100 ft with ease

I just picked up this coke bottle and line thing last year. 100 ft! Dang Todd! I have trouble at 8 ft.

Once you learn to shoot your flyline, you can cast out there pretty far. Of course if you are casting 80 feet in front of you, you need 80 feet behind you too. I can get my 5wt line out to around 35 yards, maybe a little more. I can't get a baitcaster out as far as my fly but a spinning reel casting that far is doable.

I found this video and this guy is teaching what I was not doing. It is all in the Haul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8idd4kgXY4