Smalliebigs Posted July 23, 2012 Posted July 23, 2012 I hit a couple of creeks this weekend. Luckily for us the fish were responding to the topwater with reckless abandon. I mean these fish were torpedoing the bait like pissed off little bulls and then once hooked were doing some serious jumps. Such a cool adventure, all the fish were caught on topwater and we only waded approximately 4 hours and caught around 45 fish, of which 7 were 14 to 16 1/2 inches. We caught no kicker fish from 18 to 20 but, the dude I was with had one on that was 18 or so, I'm not sure how many really big fish are in this body of water???? but, it's a gem none the less I LOVE topwater days. two at a time....double your pleasure
Flysmallie Posted July 23, 2012 Posted July 23, 2012 Nice feesh. What kind of camera/case is that hanging on your neck? I can make out the Canon part and will not hold that against you.
MOsmallies Posted July 23, 2012 Posted July 23, 2012 It was a killer trip and I was glad to get you on some streams you hadn't been on before. It was definitely some of the fiercest topwater action I've experienced. You could see wakes from 10 feet away coming to crash your bait and as soon as they were hooked, they were jumping high and often. Just about every fish had another 2 to 4 following it and as you can see in the one photo, I had my first double. Neither were big, but still cool regardless! Also an observation... The KVD trebles definitely increased my hook ups on the Owner Cultiva Zip 'n Ziggy. The stock hooks sucked and I missed a lot of strikes on my last trip. I replaced the stocks with #6 (or size 6... I can't remember) Mustad KVD short shank trebles and I was able to hook and keep hooked a ton more hits. I will be replacing several more trebles in the near future. We'll need to do it again soon! Paul MOsmallies
Smalliebigs Posted July 23, 2012 Author Posted July 23, 2012 It was a killer trip and I was glad to get you on a stream you hadn't been on before. It was definitely some of the fiercest topwater action I've experienced. You could see wakes from 10 feet away coming to crash your bait and as soon as they were hooked, they were jumping high and often. Just about every fish had another 2 to 4 following it and as you can see in the one photo, I had my first double. Neither were big, but still cool regardless! Also an observation... The KVD trebles definitely increased my hook ups on the Owner Cultiva Zip 'n Ziggy. The stock hooks sucked and I missed a lot of strikes on my last trip. I replaced the stocks with #6 (or size 6... I can't remember) Mustad KVD short shank trebles and I was able to hook and keep hooked a ton more hits. I will be replacing several more trebles in the near future. We'll need to do it again soon! Paul MOsmallies very good point.....I will be doing the same as well.
moguy1973 Posted July 23, 2012 Posted July 23, 2012 That's a nice looking creek guys. Makes me jealous to not be out fishing. -- JimIf people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. -- Doug Larson
MOsmallies Posted July 24, 2012 Posted July 24, 2012 Beautiful creek SIU!!! I know a couple gems like that and they are special places. Congrats on the 18.5" Paul MOsmallies
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