Creek fishing 9/12

[Travis C.]

Hit a creek for a few hours this morning with my flyrod in search of smallies. It took me a while to weed through the rock bass, warmouth and gills to finally connect with my target quarry. Ended up with a few typical creek smallies like the one pictured and capped the trip off with a little better one.

Fish were caught on hoppers, black woolly boogers and the smallies were caught on a clouser crayfish.

These were incredibly pesky today especially with the woolly bugger


I enjoy catching these as much as smallies and lost a nice one that was completely black when it came from under a rock to eat the crayfish pattern


Typical for where I was at but fun on a 5wt


Icing on the cake since I had already caught a few. After this fish I just packed up and left. Called it a success and grabbed a bite to eat.

[creekcrappie]

That looks like a ton of fun. Gotta love the creeks.

[MNfisher]

Looks like a great time! Nice fish!

[jad2t]

Looks like a blast! Does your crawfish pattern fly swim right? I have one that looks awesome, bought it from Bass Pro but it swims upside down. It's odd because I almost think that's a good thing since now the hook isn't dragging bottom (it's facing up) but the crawfish fly seems to be "swimming" on it's back which doesn't look natural.

[fishfindergeneral]

nice, Travis

[Travis C.]

Originally Posted by jad2t

Does your crawfish pattern fly swim right? I have one that looks awesome, bought it from Bass Pro but it swims upside down. It's odd because I almost think that's a good thing since now the hook isn't dragging bottom (it's facing up) but the crawfish fly seems to be "swimming" on it's back which doesn't look natural.

What is your pattern...do you have a pic or name?

This is what I use:


I like clouser's and more importantly the fish do too but it's non-weighted so it takes a little bit to fall in deeper pools. It rides hook down so you have to be careful of snags or dulling of the hook tip.

If you want a killer smallie fly look up a Sneaky Pete. It is similar to a popper but reverse the head. With each strip it dives under then rises back up.

[jad2t]

Originally Posted by Travis C.

What is your pattern...do you have a pic or name?

This is what I use:


I like clouser's and more importantly the fish do too but it's non-weighted so it takes a little bit to fall in deeper pools. It rides hook down so you have to be careful of snags or dulling of the hook tip.

If you want a killer smallie fly look up a Sneaky Pete. It is similar to a popper but reverse the head. With each strip it dives under then rises back up.

Mine looks very similar to that one and it's also non-weighted. It's supposed to ride hook down so it looks like a crawfish but instead it winds up flipping and riding hook up so it looks like a very confused crawfish swimming on its back. I caught a bass on it the first time I used it, shortly after that I noticed it swimming wrong and haven't caught anything on it since.

[Travis C.]

Mine did that some too so check to make sure its not twisted on the shank since it's a commercially tied pattern.

Most times when mine ends up flipped over a very subtle twitch or pull once the fly is on bottom will correct it then you can crawl. You can see the hairs on the underside actually walk it over. Remember it has no added weight so light on the movement.

[creekcrappie]

Has anyone tried the trout slayer in creeks?

[jad2t]

Originally Posted by Travis C.

Mine did that some too so check to make sure its not twisted on the shank since it's a commercially tied pattern.

Most times when mine ends up flipped over a very subtle twitch or pull once the fly is on bottom will correct it then you can crawl. You can see the hairs on the underside actually walk it over. Remember it has no added weight so light on the movement.

I did a bit of creek flyfishing yesterday and the first fly I used was the crawfish pattern. I checked to see if it was twisted and it looked to be a little bit. I fixed it hoping it would work but still swims upside down. I did manage to catch a fish on it anyway though. Fishing was very slow yesterday, that cold front got to them I guess.

[nomad60]

Nice going, Travis. The fish in the 2nd pic, is that a rock bass?