One More Wading Adventure Before Vacation

[Smalliebigs]

I was set for a week of floating on the Meramec and some of it's tributaries when I was delayed a day or so. I had to get my Smallie fix so we went wading again in a creek I have never hit before. I will just say I am going to hit it again!!!! We caught them on a variety of soft plastics and we caught a ton of fish. We had several double headers, the biggest fish was a hair under 18 inches, we caught a tremendous amount of 12 to 15 inchers. This creek would be perfect to take a kid to start them out in creek fishing it's an absolute gem, pristine water, scenic, and not that far from St. Louis for all the city boys like me.This creek runs into the Big River and it blows me away it was right under my nose for the last 30 years and I never hit it. Here are the images and once again a bonus video: Also I appologize in advance for my disgusting fat butt, I need to start working out again!!! It was hot in the creek that day my friends, like to rats fu**ing in a wool sock.notice the difference in color between the two smallies caught out of the same hole

Bonus video of a OAF member, with a perfect cast that day and he is rewarded with a nice smallie....god job Paul.

I will be back next week with a ton of good images from the Meramec, Courtois, and the Huzzah...hopefully

[Guest P. owensby]

Mineral Fork, Cedar, Mill, or Fourchet Renault?????

[flytyer57]

I was set for a week of floating on the Meramec and some of it's tributaries when I was delayed a day or so. I had to get my Smallie fix so we went wading again in a creek I have never hit before. I will just say I am going to hit it again!!!! We caught them on a variety of soft plastics and we caught a ton of fish. We had several double headers, the biggest fish was a hair under 18 inches, we caught a tremendous amount of 12 to 15 inchers. This creek would be perfect to take a kid to start them out in creek fishing it's an absolute gem, pristine water, scenic, and not that far from St. Louis for all the city boys like me.This creek runs into the Big River and it blows me away it was right under my nose for the last 30 years and I never hit it. Here are the images and once again a bonus video: Also I appologize in advance for my disgusting fat butt, I need to start working out again!!! It was hot in the creek that day my friends, like to rats fu**ing in a wool sock

notice the difference in color between the two smallies caught out of the same hole

Bonus video of a OAF member, with a perfect cast that day and he is rewarded with a nice smallie....god job Paul

I will be back next week with a ton of good images from the Meramec, Courtois, and the Huzzah...hopefully

That's some mighty nice fish you is a catchin' up there.

Now ya gotta disclose it's location so we can have a chance at them.

[Geoff]

darn it! you went out again!! Did you get the PM i sent to you? Where is this creek, i need to go out this weekend and fish, its killing me man.

[Al Agnew]

Dang it, Smalliebigs, shut up about my creeks!

All kidding aside, these are the kind of creeks that should NOT be publicized...please keep the actual location quiet. In the photos and video you can see how small this creek is (I know which one it is, by the way). The fishing is good precisely because not many people bother to fish it, access is somewhat limited, and and those who fish it release the fish. On a creek this size, it only takes one or two greedy pinheads keeping every fish they legally can and pounding it for a few trips to come close to wiping out the population of bigger fish.

I think I fish every creek that Smalliebigs has posted pictures on in the last few weeks. But even I don't fish any single stretch of these creeks more than once or twice a year. I just don't want to mess up a good thing and wear out the creeks. One of the creeks he posted about, even though he had a pretty good trip on it, was twice as good five years ago, but in the last five years it has been discovered by more anglers and the fishing has gone downhill.

Edit to add...looks like I was a little too late. So now I'm really asking you, Smalliebigs, to not disclose these small creeks anymore for the reasons I stated above. I don't care if people post about bigger, floatable streams or even the exact stretches of the bigger streams. They can take a little added pressure, and most people fishing them for the first time won't do all that well anyway. But these little creeks are just give up their bigger fish too easily. Again I stress, and I can say it because I've seen it over and over again, it ONLY TAKES ONE OR TWO GREEDY PINHEADS keeping fish legally and hitting a creek this size for several trips to really make a huge dent in the big fish population. And while nearly all of us who post on here release most or all the fish we catch, there are lurkers who may not. Word gets out.

Edited again to add...Understand I don't even mind you saying it was a Big River tributary, or that you've been fishing the Mississippi tribs. That gives people options and choices on which streams to try, and chances are if they wish to do it they'll find good fishing on whichever ones they try. But I'm decidedly uneasy about naming the exact single stream...which will bring them ALL, however many they are, to that one stream.

[eric1978]

Nice report and cool video...that was a nice cast!

I gotta agree with Al. While I like hearing about creeks I've never fished, and frankly never even knew you could get to, I don't like others knowing about them, because others aren't always responsible with that info. Be selfish Smalliebigs, be selfish. A couple PMs to people who you trade secrets with probably wouldn't hurt too much. There are a lot of lurkers on this forum...you gotta figure a few of them are meat anglers. Boooo!

[Smalliebigs]

Sorry Al, I would never want any stream to be decimated, in fact I picked so much trash from the acess point where I was on this creek I had to bungee it down in the back of my truck for the ride home. My partner and I always bend are barbs down on our hooks when we fish soft plastics wherever we go, I can't tell you how many trophies I have lost that way. I repect all water and land like it was my own. This creek is not one that feeds into the Mississippi, it dumps directly into the Big river.There were a few locals fishing with minnows where we parked and trash and it looked quit industrial, yet if you walked a mile or so up or down it was beautiful. Al, I completely respect your knowledge of the rivers and streams in our great state and in honor of that I will never disclose a locale on this forum ever again.I am truly sorry and you are right, I hope you don't think I could possibly one of those "GREEDY PINHEADS"???? I just love seeing and catching Smallies.

Al, I deleted the prior post with name of the creek, I guess I was beeing a little naive.This dude is taking the canoe up stream for an evening float....see ya.

[Guest P. owensby]

Sorry guy's, I should of more carefully thought out the question before I asked about the stream in particular. Kinda new to the forum thing and was not looking at the situation from all the diffrent perspectives...

[Gavin]

Some nice fish...thanks for the report from destination X;>)!

[snagged in outlet 3]

I fear it's too late.

9 replies and 80 some odd views.

Internet trollers got to it already.

In this day and age you just have to revel in your success without telling anyone.

SIO3