7-25 Report

[Devan S.]

Did my first fishing trip ever on Crooked Creek. Have never religiously fished for Smallmouth so take my report for what its worth.

Put in at Mark Oliver/Georges Creek and floated to Kelly crossing. Caught probably 10 smallmouth....nothing big mostly 12-14" fish. Flukes and crawdad soft plastics.

Fished hard the first half......ran out of time and passed a lot of what looked to be better water on the second half(hindsight I would float the first half and fish the second). Saw a really nice channel cat...and lots of nice carp. Spent way to much time trying to catch a carp. 

Water was right at 95-100cfs....we floated 2 big guys in a canoe.... only had to get out in a few sections but lots of bumping and banging....wouldn't go at a much lower level than it is for floating.

[Ham]

They float you did is an EASY shuttle and is getting crushed by fishing pressure. I'm not wild about the last mile of that float, but I guess a nice fish can come from almost anywhere. 

[Devan S.]

I would say we fished hard the first 2 miles..maybe...by hard I mean we stopped and got out and fished or waded sections. Really stopped getting out and stopping to fish about 2 miles in and just drug lures or tossed here and there and went into more of a float/paddle mode. 

I could easily see 1-1.5 miles either way from an access there was quiet a few guys wading so I assume those areas get a lot of pressure. Lots of cars in both lots. 

We probably stopped really fishing about the time we should have really started picking things apart more. Oh well will know better next time maybe.