Short Creek Was Great

[kelly]

Spent Saturday on Tainey. I was by myself in one of Phils boats in the AM and in a boat with a friend from St. Robert after lunch. Short creek seemed to be the place to go with the bait dejour being green jigs. We caught Rainbows on white, orange sculpin and brown ginger but the green ones were the best. I caught my first creek chub and my smallest Rainbow to date, a full four incher.

I always thought I was fishing on the bottom until I made myself wait...and wait till my line went slack before I began my retrieve. Also instead of jerking or twitching my rod tip I simply cranked a couple of turns and stopped. This keeps the line tighter and it seems to work better for me than anything else I've tried.

I don't know what what the attraction was but when I ventured up to Fall Creek I discovered seventeen boats stacked up in the first two-hundred yards below the mouth of the creek. Talk about a zoo, an orderly zoo mind you but well...you know. I heard something about a tourney going on but I don't know for sure. We did have one guy scream by us while we were drifting. He was up on plane doing about forty and whizzed by at about ten paces. I was grateful for the lack of wake but still that is a little unnerving.

Can't wait for the next trip, they're just too few and far between. In the meantime, look out Wipers here I come.

[Gatorjet]

Thanks for the good report. It's really making me want to get down there soon!

Short Creek is almost always a good location, along with that 200 yards or so below Fall Creek. I do think the area below Fall Creek gets a lot of "psychological" pressure though. People thinking that a lot of the 12-19 inch slot fish from the trophy area will make a suicidal feeding run below Fall Creek. There may be some truth to that, I have caught, and released, several nice 15-18 inch rainbows in that area, but not always reliably. Probably because of the pressure.