Members Arkamo Traveler Posted January 3, 2006 Members Posted January 3, 2006 Heyduke lives! You are right about the habits about the cottonmouth, but I have been "lucky" enough to see them there.
Members SeldomSeen Posted January 4, 2006 Members Posted January 4, 2006 Hayduke, I knew you were the hippie tree-hugger type, but a snake hugger too? By golly, if one of them swarthy serpents tries to stick his pointy fangs into one of these hairy white ankles, he's gonna catch the sharp side of a piece from "the nifty fifty" collection!
Members Hayduke-2-O Posted January 5, 2006 Members Posted January 5, 2006 Well, I'm not much of a snake "hugger" (on purpose, anyway), but I have helped collect cottonmouths and I'd just like to offer what little I learned... in an effort to spare your (and anyone else's) hairy ankles. Once we spotted one, usually on "debris jams" (mini log jams from high water events usually above the bank) or on rocks or over hanging limbs, we had to stalk them with about as much stealth as is required to fish for the rainbows. Nearly all of them tried to flee, and some escaped... but the only times they got aggressive was when grabbed them with the snake tool. Something to keep in mind while your trying to get your fly untangled... or perhaps you could employ a piece from "the nifty fifty" on your leader.
Members BMOE Posted March 29, 2006 Members Posted March 29, 2006 Been reading this post and I'm not going to step on anyones ability to fish Crane, but I never have problems hooking up on fish with the flyrod there. Yes the upper section is real difficult to fish with a fly rod, but can be done. I mainly fish the lower section exclusively with a 3wt. 8'6" rod and don't have a problem. I generally use one style of nymph and that is a bastardized Red Squirrel Beadhead. I use woodduck flank feathers for the tail instead of the fur. Learned that one sometime when I went to Southwest Mo. St. Size 12or14 is best. This past year fished it approx. 6 times and usually catch a couple 12-13" fish with the occaisional 15". This past feb. went down and the water was extremely low but since I drove from k.c. I decided to fish it. Caught one 19" on a beadhead olive midge in a pool and a 15" in one of the riffles along with a couple 10". What i'm saying is don't get down on this creek. You just have to be real stealthy and make long casts if necessary, and work the deeper water thoroughly. Good Luck
timsfly Posted March 29, 2006 Posted March 29, 2006 I fished crane creek a few weeks ago, the water is very skinny, fish are shittish but they alway are over there, caught most of my fish on a red # 10 san juan worm, I started about a 1/2 mile below the last wire road access below the town of crane, I only caught 3 fish, 2 on the worm and one on #12 adams, had several small fish on some I'm sure were just big minnows but 2 were little trout, biggest fish I caught was about 13" long the other 2 were just about 10" long, but it was fun, used my 6' 2wt fiberglass scott fly rod, makes the casting eaiser for me, and you don't need to cast very far right now, saw a few snakes nothing to worry about they went their way and I went mine, I have fished crane for over 20 years and have never saw a true cotton mouth, lots of the ole rough water snake like we have at roaring river, but never a cotton mouth, I always carry a pistol just in case, but have never need to use it over there, good luck fishing crane, when we get some more rain the fishing should really be good, I fish some private land down below the conservation area and the fishing is still good down there, more and deeper water, and there are still several fish holding in there, when the water rises I'll be a lot of those fish will seek out other places to live upstream. Tim Homesley 23387 st. hwy 112 Cassville, Mo 65625 Roaring River State park Tim's Fly Shop www.missouritrout.com/timsflyshop
Brian K. Shaffer Posted April 5, 2006 Posted April 5, 2006 I'm glad to see this thread pretty quite until we get more rain.. as we will see how this years summer hatches work off of the water we do have. Keep it simple.. keep it mental.. watch your runs tough... But watch out this Spring for the darn snakes! Low water / high water.. ugh! Brian Just once I wish a trout would wink at me! ozarkflyfisher@gmail.com I'm the guy wearing the same Simms longbilled hat for 10 years now.
drew03cmc Posted December 9, 2006 Posted December 9, 2006 Any news on the stream lately? I was curious how the water is after the snowmelt, and such... Andy
Dutch Posted December 9, 2006 Posted December 9, 2006 It shouldn't change much since they didn't get much snow. Another stream which has trout and runs into Crane Creek is Spring Creek. It can be accessed in down town Hurley.
Members Dewayne Posted January 20, 2007 Members Posted January 20, 2007 Finally got around to fish Crane Creek today.Creek very fast, air temp in low30's with sleet & snow ice was still falling off trees ,but I had to try.First trip and got my first McCloud such a BEAUTIFUL FISH right at 9". The flash on the camera took some of the color out Im hooked now
Danoinark Posted January 20, 2007 Posted January 20, 2007 Wow Dewayne, what a nice wild one. Man I have always wanted to fish Crane just never have. Someday I would love for someone to show me around there. Thanks for the post and the picture. When they say upper and lower Crane what is everyone talking about and what about access? Thanks Dano Glass Has Class "from the laid back lane in the Arkansas Ozarks"
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