Feb 8-9th Longs Creek

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Got out of town for the weekend and came to fish the lower end of the lake for the first time ever....

 

It it was cold.  Really cold.  It was also windy...  which made it feel colder....  but when you have two days to fish you take it come hell or high water.

fishing was brutal for us.  Couldn’t find any sort of pattern to run or active feeding fish. Add to that running all new water and I just couldn’t put the pieces off be puzzle together.

On Friday we ran up the creek pretty far- caught a smallie and spot on a swim bait and lost a really nice smallie at the boat on a jig.  Found some fish feeding in the mouth of a little cove and caught a white bass on an A-Rig.  

Saturday we ran the other way and again found some feeding fish suspended in 80-120 feet of water- but in a point where the wind was blowing hard.  I couldn’t really fish it effectively but we did catch one very far white.  In the afternoon we ran back up the creek- caught another small spot on a jig.  

We marked a lot of fish suspended in the channel back there.  Couldn’t get anything to buy until I got out the ice jig.  Caught 2 crappie there- suspended over 30 feet of water.  We marked a ton of scattered fish up the river and after catching those crappie I am pretty sure they were all crappie .  

All in all a tough cold couple days...  but better than a lot of other things I coulda been doing!

[Bill Babler]

One of the local guides was having a rough time up Long Creek one day last week and stumbled on a huge school of white's at the LC/Cricket creek split.  Kind of pulled him out of the fire.  They caught quite a few on a small Keitech swimbait.  Fish were scattered from 30' to the bottom.

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That’s right where we were... Lotta whites and crappie up there but we had a hard time getting them to feed.  Water got prettt muddy on Saturday.