Fished Roark Creek again

[Jeremy Hunt]

I was able to do a little fishing yesterday at Roark Creek again. This time it was even better then the last because the white bass were in the shallows right at the mouth of it and they were a lot easier to catch in this one concentrated area. The bite was a little slow until about 6:30pm. I caught more white bass then crappie this time. I think for the most part the crappies are cleaned out. I saw three or four boats and a ton of people fishing off the banks. The only thing wrong with most of all of them was, they didn’t go right up to the mouth. And the funny thing was, out of all those boats I didn’t see one person catch a white bass during the day. There was a few people staying at Roark’s timeshare along the bank up there that saw me fishing and they decided they would give a shot. They were all using bait and not one person pulled out a bass and there were tons of fish. I guess it really does matter what you’re using. I was throwing small flies tied with nothing but flash for wing material for the whole body. They couldn’t stay off that thing. I threw a clouser minnow when I first started with no luck which was amazing to me since I fished it the day before with great results. I did tie one on at the end and caught a few crappie and white bass as I was leaving. All in all it was a good day.