Dun Dun (Think Law And Order)

[Lancer09]

4:00: Get off Work

4:30: leave apartment with gear in tow

4:57: smell, before seeing dead skunk on side of the road

5:10: Pull into city park parking lot

5:12: nearly fall trying to put waders on

5:13: accomplish putting on waders

5:15: see someone walking up from the creek having just finished fishing the whole park section, great now all the water is busted... Really don't want drive down to lower wire, i'll just fish it.

5:19: have a beaver scare the dung out of me when it popped out of the brush right in front of me

5:20: first cast, no fish

5:23: First fly change (I saw a few rises but nothing hatching) tried a dry

5:30: drop fly rod into the water trying to untangle fly from a tree

5:40: catch second ever mccloud rainbow on a swung softhackle

5:45: continue fishing

6:00 switch to a small slump buster

6:10: miss monster bite in the deep, slack water hole there in the park

6:11: catch a large, i.e. 14 inch... sucker... kinda pretty fish though, dark olive back with a bright red/pink belly

6:15: walk the park and not see much going on.

6:30: call it a night and decide that i didn't catch more because the water had already been fished.

[pruett417]

Sound like the typical Crane Creek afternoon dash, I've been there many times, in fact possibly today. Did you lose any flies? Or hurt yourself in anyway? That usually adds to the story a little bit. Back in October, set out for my "Crane Creek" dash, dropped my reel in a mudhole right off the bat, a front was moving through, just an all in all miserable night, was doing the "Crane Creek Creep" at dark, with all intents of being stealthy and slick, managed to trip over a limb, fall down an enbankment and break my wrist, 13 weeks later and several thousands of dollars later I'm no wiser, I'm ready to do it all over again....

[Lancer09]

I did in fact lose a fly, the slump buster. I could see it snagged on a rock but didn't want to blow any and all water around it.. just broke it off, went to look for another... and it was the only one I had on me.

[Arofishing]

Just got back from the park section. Caught two trout and one creek chub. I'll have to amend your 6:30. My friend and I didn't catch more because you "busted" out the creek last night .

[OKFlyFisher44]

That creek is tough if you aren't the first one to hit the water, especially since it's back to being "low". Those fish r so skittish when it gets that low.

I am little surprised it didn't fish better than it did though, usually if u let those fish "rest" for a bit then they will feed again. Who knows...

That's what makes the creek so awesome...

[pruett417]

Fished the lower access yesterday, and like a few of you, historically it just hasn't fished well for me. Fished big dries, trying to coax some fish from the logs and got it done. Of course missed several fish, but did catch a few all small, did notice several feeding fish at dark that always position themselves where there is no way in hell to present a fly to them. One of my fly box populations can atest for that.