Hickory Creek Fishing Report

[rob1571]

Bad, Bad, and Bad. That about sums it up. Fished from 264 Ramp to the back of Hickory CReek. Tried minnows, jigs, spoons, small umbrella rig and rapalas. Caught 2 small spots on minnow. Marked quite a few fish but struck out. I hope this helps. Trying to be a contributor and not just a reader. Good Luck.

[J-Doc]

I had a little better luck. I didn't get out until just after 5PM. I found a small crappie tight to standing timber and probably could have put a pattern together on it but I was anxious to try the main lake trolling before it got dark. A local guide was working my area and another guy was trolling so I didn't want to be the third wheel. I trolled through between them and worked a nearby area. No luck.

About 7pm, the sporadic surface bite started. I would throw a spoon to the activity and nothing so I trolled them. I landed this fat 17" hybrid. I checked long and hard to make sure it wasn't a white before releasing. It was too big a white to throw back. :-) But, this lady got to swim away and tell her friends she was blessed to take a ride in a cool old boat while the goober that caught her checked his identification photo for whites/hybrids!! LOL

Shouldn't this be in the Beaver Lake forum?