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Thanks Gavin. Glad you enjoyed it.

I’ve heard rumors of this study. But like you, I’ve never seen any results.

Thank you.

One last thing I want to say about this. If you are interested in visiting Crane Creek you really should look at Walnut Bend Lodge. We spent two nights there. It's a great little place with 3/4 mile of private access to the creek with some amazing looking water. The owners, Kevin and Jeanie Skibiski, are great people. They were there to greet us and to make sure we knew everything about the place. Kevin even took a couple of us on a little tour of the property in his gator. https://www.walnutbendlodge.com/

I’ve never done well fishing from the bank out there.

I’ve caught plenty of bass out there. A lot of that was out of a kayak.

That was a special moment.

Thank you very much. And yes, all the underwater shots are on Crane Creek. That was an eye opening experience. I never in a million years would have thought I could get a trout from Crane Creek on camera underwater, unless it was being released. I head down there one Saturday just to get some footage of the creek for this video. I found this nice pool and just saty back to watch it for a while. I couldn't see any fish at all. But after a few minutes I saw two larger fish chase each other through the pool. They were 15-16inch fish. They did this 3 or 4 times and then just vanished. Once they were gone I got down in the water and had one of my GoPros on a stick I built. I held it under water for a few minutes but couldn't tell if I got anything or not. My GoPro has a small screen on it but I can barely see it. I was climbing back up out of this hold and was going to make my way around to the other side of the creek to try some different angles. About that time I start hearing all this talking and these 5 college kids come crashing out of the woods. At the time I didn't know there was a trail up past the trees. They immediately head straight for me and when they get there thy pick up rocks and start tossing them in the pool. Idiots. But they didn't know any better and were just hanging out. So I left. When I popped that memory card in my computer later that night I was amazed at what was under the water. That pool that I couldn't see any fish in was loaded with fish. And those rainbows might be terrified of things over the water they sure aren't camera shy. The next day I went back with a GoPro on a much longer stick. Everywhere I went on that creek and shoved a camera in the water I saw fish. That little creek is absolutely full of fish. Makes me curious what I will find in other streams.

Thanks. I really appreciate that.

Thanks Ness. Crane is a special place. I have a different and better connection with it now. To me I don't care much about the legend or the purity. They are 100% Crane Creek Redbands to me. And yes there are a ton of videos on Crane and I have watched the majority of them. I watched them all before I created mine because I wanted it to be different from any of those. I know there are hard feelings about exposing special places, but the cat is out of the bag on Crane and I had nothing to do with that. The stream is being heavily loved at this point. Not only will you find a lot more fisherman, you will also find a lot of folks just out walking the trails along the creek. I saw more people just out walking and throwing rocks in the water than I did fishermen. But you might have noticed there are still plenty of fish in the creek.

I’m using a small inexpensive drone and it does really well. I only flew it 4 times to get the footage. Almost crashed it into the river all four times. LMAO. One of those was a real struggle to get it back to me so I could land. I think it got some debris in the motor.

Thanks Marty and Pat! Glad that you enjoyed and there will be more. Kind of enjoying this more than the actual fishing right now. Never thought about submitting it to anything. Don’t know if it’s that level. But if it meant more people could enjoy it then I might look into it. Now I just have to make a decision on the next target. But I’m thinking it’s going to see if smallmouth are camera shy.

Thanks Mitch.

Thanks man.

I hope you enjoy it.