Fishing Report 7/16-7/24

[BIG K]

Spent the last 9 days at Blue Haven and had a lot of friends fish lower taney. they reported good action in the Bull creek area and cedar point area. Most of the fish I saw them clean were in the 11 to 12 inch size nothing much bigger all taken on powerbait. they were complaining of a lot a fish in the 5 to 6 inch size.I did stop one evening on the way back from trophy area and tossed a few cleos in the coon creek area and found swarms of 6 inch trout following the cleo in.

[Bill Babler]

Big K, what are your thoughts on this? I can tell you for a fact, those fish, if they are trout, are not stocked fish. MDC to my knowledge has never or will never stock such fish. This is just not their farming practice.

I have been as hard on these folks as anyone, but have never suggested they are stocking 5 to 6 inch trout.

In your opinion, is this some natural recruitment from some of the feeder streams?

Phil and I fished Bull Creek this Winter and it was in certain locations just loaded with fish. Not to say they are reproducing in large numbers up there, but they are present during the breeding season in these feeder streams. They remain there in large numbers until the water warms to the extent to make them uncomfortable.

Very interested to know what you think is going on.

Thanks Bill

[BIG K]

Im not for sure where they came from.I did catch a few in the coon creek mouth and they were Rainbows and would have layed in the palm of my hand pretty easy ( wish i had took a pic)I did see the stock boat twice last week on the lower end and it was after that my bait fishing friends started catching the small trout below the islands just above bull creek they brought a couple in that were not succesfully released and they measured 6.5 inches.i wonder if they are from the fed hatchery as they dont grow them as big as MDC does.

[Bill Babler]

That is probably as good a possibility as any. Still yet, even the Federal fish that are usually stocked in December are a mite bigger than that.

I'll have to put my thinking cap on this time to get it figured out.

Could be they had a pen that was just not doing any good, or just had to make room, and needed the pen space.

Those youngens were aways apart, if your's were at coony and they caught the others at cedar.

Be interested to see if the boys at the hatchery know what is going on. They have just been stocking fantastic fish this past year.

Thanks for the heads up and good luck

[BrianS]

I have been wanting to go there and bass fish. Anyone catching any bass over there?