Indian Creek

[Bird Watcher]

Floated the last 3 of the last 4 evenings down Indian Creek. The water has finally fallen out enough that the fish are predictable again. The downside is that you hit the gravel in a few riffles. Unreal how the fish are biting right now. I'd say that the last three trips have had a 15-20 fish per hour average. The only thing that is really missing are the top end fish. Caught one over 15" the other evening, and I'd say a dozen or more over 14", but still have not seen a 17"+ fish.

Don't know if this helps anyone, but it's the only report I have to give.

[wacky worm]

hey where did you float from and two and are there any obstructions down creek from lannagan city park

thanks

russ

[Bird Watcher]

hey where did you float from and two and are there any obstructions down creek from lannagan city park

thanks

russ

Wacky,

I always float somewhere above Lanagan. Sometimes as far up as Boulder City. I've been going a lot lately from Mayfield down to Town Hole. It's close to the house. There are two strainers between the Interstate Bridge and Town Hole, but with the water down, you can see them coming before they are a problem.

[Lshack2]

We tried to float from Anderson down to Lanagan Park and had to portage a couple of times around fallen trees. However, about a half mile below the lowwater bridge above Lanagan we ran into a huge log jam. It was getting dark so instead of a long portage (it looked like 100 yds plus) we went back up to the low water bridge and took out there.

Same story with good numbers of fish but no big fish. Caught several on a fly rod with a clouser that was pretty fun.

Larry

[ollie]

I'm just afraid you won't find those bigger fish in the stream anymore. Just a few years back it wasn't uncommon to hook into some 16-18" range smallies, but I haven't caught one bigger than 15" in the last couple of years. I really think the drought a couple of years back put the demise of the bigger fish down. That coupled with the fact people are taking any fish over 12" doesn't leave many big ones to survive. I've seen a LOT of legal and illegal stringers being taken every year out of there mainly by locals.

[Guest]

I floated three different stretches of indian this weekend.

No big fish.

Yes people need to quit keeping the big smallies. WTF???

We caught and released nearly 100 smallies in 3 days and there were no big fish.

I over heard Bubba at the take-out bragging that he has 2 real nice smallies on his stringer.

This really PI$$ED me off.

Bubba needs to eat catfish, LOL

The biggest logjam on planet earth is right below the low-water bridge just above Lanagan.

I had to drag the canoe 300 yards across a massive gravel bar.

There must have been over 100 freshly fallen trees in there.

I doubt it gets cleared out any time soon.

[ollie]

I fished down there yesterday and did alright. Caught two 14" smallies, but that was the only big ones all morning. The rest were in the 10-12" range. TrophyfishR did I met you at Flat Rock yesterday afternoon? I met three guys putting in and floating in innertubes down to Anderson and I thought they were from Arkyland. And yea, the Bubbas down there take everything they can.

[Guest]

I was there yesterday in a yellow buffalo canoe.

Just me and the dog(border collie)

Where's flat-rock??

I floated from Casey's to Lanangan.

[Lshack2]

Trophy... we fished the same stretch from Casey's to Lanangan on Thursday and had a similar trip with lots of smallies, nothing over 15". When we got to the logjam we decided to paddle back up to the low water bridge as it was getting dark vs. a 300 yard portage. Can you park at the bridge and take out there to avoid the log jam?

Larry

[Guest]

I didnt know about that bridge until we had to portage it.

I've never floated indian untiil the weekend, but did it 3 times.