Fished Mill Creek Today

[timsfly]

I fished Mill Creek today, first time I've been up there in over 20 years, it hasn't changed a whole lot, the trout all looked the same.

I caught 3 nice trout, hooked several more and had many strikes that I missed, seen some holes that would have 3 or 4 12" trout

in them and then holes that looked just as nice would only have one 10"-12" trout, the trout have plenty to eat, the little

creek is full of creek chubs, sculpins and crawfish, the trout will never starve.

I caught all my trout on a #12 tung headed pine squirrel nymph, no tail just has

the micro squirrel palmered on the hook, it was dark brown.

I started at the picnic area on CR7550 and walked up stream from there, fished about 3 hrs.

I don't know if the water level is normal now or low but you had to walk a ways between

fish holding areas.

[fishinwrench]

Sweet ! it's good to hear that Mill is doing ok. I haven't tried to fish it since '03 (it wasn't fishing so well then). I had fished Roubidoux earlier that day and got skunked so I drove over to Mill and did catch three tiny bows from a deep undercut spot along the bank. I turned over a few rocks and the bottom of the stream was crawling with green caddis worms, I did have some green rockworm patterns in my box and although they were 3 times larger than the ones under the rocks I tied one on to try. But then I rounded a bend and saw the only black bear I've ever seen in the wild. I had been hearing some rustling but just thought it was squirrels, as I rounded the bend the bear was rooting around digging at the base of a deadfall and we noticed each other at the same time. It held its ground and kept sticking his nose up in the air, either trying to "wind" me or trying to look bigger. I backed out real slow and he/she never advanced nor retreated, nevertheless I kept looking back every few steps... all the way back to the truck. LOL

It shook me up a little and that ended my fishing for the day. I always assumed that if I ever ran into one here in Missouri it would be a cute little bugger no bigger than a dog...but that one was pretty big and heavy looking.

Those are some real pretty little Rainbows, makes me wanna go back real soon. Thanks for sharing.