An Afternoon Wading

[Terrierman]

I had a meeting get over way ahead of schedule on Wednesday and decided to put the afternoon to good use. Went wading on one of our small clear little streams. Started out fly fishing - I'm pretty much a rookie there but caught several sunfish and a couple of smallmouth before deciding that spending most of my time untangling, retying and trying to get the business end where it needed to be was going to have to wait for another day. Got the spinning rig back out and fished spinnerbait (no luck) tiny torpedo (no luck) blue twin twister tail on chart jig head (no luck) crawdad colored tube jig (that's what they wanted). Went to two different spots and waded about a mile mabe mile and a half downstream at both. The second place is where I finally found what they wanted. The wading was tough as this particular stream bottom is more rocks the size of watermelons or slick bare rock than gravel. But worth it. Anywhere there was a little deeper than usual water with current along the grass there was a fish or two. The last place I hit was a little deeper hole with current and the biggish rock bottom. I think there was a fish every cast in that hole for the first ten casts or so. Nothing big, but still a very fine afternoon out. Probably had 20 or so all told. Not one goggle eye though, which surprised me. Green sunfish are still bedding. Hot and humid, good time to be knee deep to waist deep in a creek. What topped it off was finding a field road alongside the creek that saved me from having to wade back up.

Good times.

[LittleRedFisherman]

Sounds like a great time, hard to beat the tried and true tube. Although I tried one on the 11 point Tuesday and didn't have much luck, they were wanting crankbaits. There's a creek in my part of the Ozarks I've waded from time to time, that is always a great experience, just something about it!!