Fishing Report

[Jeremy Hunt]

You know I decided to stay in for the day because they were running three generators and I had some work to do around the house with trying to get those fly tying video clips up and running. I didn’t have much luck with that because I needed to be outside to have good lighting, but they were doing some construction right outside my place and wasn’t able to

get real good voice recording. I promise I will get it up in the next few days.

Anyways about my day of fishing, I knew it was the second day the weather was warming up and I had to see if the fish were still active in the creek since Taney was shot from the high water. I didn’t see a lot of fish along the bank this time and wonder if they moved upstream since we had heavy rains and the creek was up or if the cold had something to do with pushing them out. One thing I do know is it didn’t matter because I made all the right choices today and got rewarded big time. Of course I went to my favorite tree first and saw a few fish, but for the most part there was only bluegill, but lots of them. I was the only boat out there the whole time and I saw a few kids fishing bait on the banks. I asked them if they caught any fish as I was coming into the creek and they said, only bluegill. I was little worried and didn’t have much hope when I heard that.

When I first started the day I was only catching bluegill on a baby clouser minnow, but noticed a few crappie and largemouth under the bridge. I made a few cast with a Davy Wotton shad and had one big bass that probably weighed six pounds that got off so I wasn’t able to get that one on film. I was bummed out and thought that probably was going to be the only footage I would get for the whole day. Not thinking it would get any better it did. I saw way in the mouth of the creek that there was some current and what looked like that was where the fish were at so I motored up real slow and notice some bass moving out of the way. I knew that was good sign. When I got there I notice that it was a deep hole that was four feet deep and thought this has to have some fish in it. The first cast I made I had a hit, but missed it so I made another cast catching one right off the bat. The rest is history. I caught six bass out of there and one big crappie in about an hour of fishing it. It was getting darker and I only had thirty minutes of daylight left so I decided to work my way out and make a few more cast under the bridge and see if I couldn’t catch a few more crappie. I knew they were there because I caught them last week the same way. I made three casts and caught one. Then I made a few more cast and caught two more. Two of them were big with one being the smallest of the day. About this time I was on cloud nine and didn’t care if I caught anything else. But wait it gets better.

I probably only had fifteen minutes or so left. So on my way out I was getting close to the mouth of the creek where it meets with Taneycomo and thought I would make a few more cast to see if I could catch a white bass or something in the open water. I made a real long cast and started to retrieve it slow and about the third strip I caught a pig on my first cast and thought what a day and I still cant believe this day. All I can say is it was a great day for me and will go down as one as my most memorable trips because it wasn’t expected at all. What a fly and it all has to do with the way it rides in the water. Go check out the footage. There are six video clips on the fish I caught. They’re dated 4-16-07 (evening). I hope you like them.