Jimmy Creek Fishing Report 4-5-14

[Ham]

I had time for a shortish trip today. I'm going to be volunteering at my daughter's High School Prom tonight. I had to give up learning more about my Hummingbird from Don House and J.E.V. tonight, but that's part of the Dad deal.

I'm going to eventually be moving to Marion County and I'm going to have rapid access to Jimmy Creek so I'm going to learn more about it. Today was a bit of a tough lesson. It apparently doesn't warm up very quickly. I was pretty surprised this morning when I slid the Bass Cat into the water to see 46' and change. Hmmmm not what I was expecting.

I really expected mid 50's and warmer in the way backs of coves or pockets, but the warmest water I saw was 51' right before I took out.

Water was pretty clear with stain way back the main creek. NOT muddy by any means but more like two foot of visibility rather than 10 foot of visibility. I did all my fishing between the Fairview launch and the CCC launch.

I was expecting a Wart bite and my heart was kinda set on that deal. I did catch one nice smallie on the Wart, but that was all.

I got a chunky LMB and a keeper Spot on a squarebill.

I got a 16 inch White Bass on the pan fish A rig. I got a few more bumps on it, but only caught the one White Bass. I'd love to tell y'all to go get some White Bass, but I saw almost no surface activity to lead me to believe a lot of White Bass have moved back into Jimmy Creek. I saw lots of other folks fishing in areas I expected the White Bass to be in, but no one was catching.

I tried dragging a 3/8 oz FB with a Hula grub off points in 15-30 foot of water. I felt real good about that, but got ZERO looks. I threw a McStik and a Pointer 100 in a lot of likely looking spots working a variety of retrieves. I stuck with it a good while and got ZERO bites on it.

I got my last fish of the day on the Ned Rig. It was about a 13 inch Spotted bass. 3/4 of the way back a secondary creek where the channel swung into the bank. I had tried everything else on it and knew it looked like it had to have a few fish.

Mr Spot tried to swim off with my Zinker.

I fished about 7 hours for 5 fish. All my fish were decent chunks. The two spots would have kept and the White bass was nice. Weather was cool, but pretty. I heard my first Rain Crow of the year. I'm thinking he got here a little early.

I sure expected to catch more fish, but that's fishing.

[Quillback]

Thanks for the report. What's a "Rain Crow"?

[Ham]

Yellow Billed Cuckoo. They winter in South America. Primarily feed on caterpillars. Very distinctive call that is often heard, but rarely seen.

[Quillback]

Thanks, I'll have to look them up, so when I see one (or hear one), I'll know what it is.

[bfishn]

Audubon has 3 recordings at;

http://birds.audubon.org/birds/yellow-billed-cuckoo

The second one is what I remember hearing most. Can't say I ever saw one. Like spring peepers, they're a mostly unseen member of the choir.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SM6leUVorY

hmmmm... note to self; search for peepers ringtone.....

[Quillback]

Thanks for the links, yeah I have hard that second one, never knew what it was.

[Fish24/7]

Ham , I agree, yesterday's weather was pleasant

thank you for the report very much

I like birds too

My favorite one that comes back to Bull every Spring...Prothonotary

[Ham]

I'm pretty sure I've heard that guy.

[duckydoty]

Great report. I did make it to Don's Class yesterday and on the water today. Great class, but prom for daughter was probably better. The biggest thing I got out of class is….play with your contrast a lot till you can see what you want to see where you want to see it.

[Col Ron]

Nice try Ham, you will get'em.