Bluegrass State Quick Creek Trip

[Johnsfolly]

We were taking our son and his family from Virginia to Missouri after he graduated from his AIT training at Fort Eustis. Our trip would run through Kentucky and I made reservations in Morehead Kentucky for a hotel and identified a small lake and several access points on a few creeks to get a KY fish. Since we wanted to get to the hotel, I pushed off going to Walmart until Sunday morning. Had to wait for a manager to get in at 7 am to get my license and went to explore the creek that I noticed next to the store. I noted a couple of pull off spots, but also found a small feeder creek. I figured that my best bet in catching something new would be in that creek. I drove upstream and found a crossing with a couple of pools and a few larger minnows. Got the microrig ready and baited with a small piece of redworm. These fish were very skittish and I had to keep the road crossing between the fish and myself in order to get bites.

I caught one straight away – My first fish in Kentucky (27^th state in which I have caught a fish ). Looked very closely to determine species and looked very much like a creek chub  .

 

I caught a larger one and the head and mouth as well as the dark spot at the base of the dorsal fin confirmed that I was likely just catching creek chub. I found that this species in Kentucky is like in many places fairly common in its distribution.

 

I hiked along upstream poking my bait into any cover or holes within the rocks hoping for a sculpin or some darters. I never found any within the time window that I allotted for this trip. It was a nice little creek. Lots of chubs, but maybe not many other species at least not in the section that I fished .

I tried the larger creek and though it looked fishy, I only caught the interest of a small (actually micro ) bass. Never hooked it. All in all not a bad restful stop in the middle of a long trip back to Missouri.

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

No Kentucky 'bass'...  ?  (Insert Rimshot)

[Johnsfolly]

12 minutes ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said:

No Kentucky 'bass'...  ?  (Insert Rimshot)

Too shallow. Thought that the larger creek would have been the deal in catching sunfish and bass and even a kentucky spotted bass. But no😌! I never seem to have time to really explore an area.

[Ham]

Great Job John

 

[trythisonemv]

Welcome home john!