Crane Creek was good to me this morning

[timsfly]

Crane was good this morning, I drive over crane nearly every day and I enjoy the little creek, so I had an hour to kill this morning, started fishing at 6:30, it was sure quite this morning, but I did manage to catch this nice trout about 14" and one smaller trout and missed two more, they were small ones, the ones you don't see are always small

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[Danoinark]

Thanks for whettin' the appetite there Tim...Dano

[Terry Beeson]

Looks like a pretty good outing, Tim... Crane is not that easy to fish, is it? Where are you accessing it?

[timsfly]

Yes crane creek can be tough, I fished there 11 times before I caught a nice trout, and I finally have them sort of figured out, but sometimes they are hard to catch, the water was up a bit this morning and that helps, I love to fish crane after a rain, you don't know what you might catch, I've seen fish on crane that would go 26" easy, but only twice have I seen fish that large, one was above town and the other below town, the area I fished this moning was the area below the dairy farm, the last conservation area, the third wire road access. This was public land I was on today, I have a few private areas I fish on crane also, but today it was there, I was about 300 yds from the truck, only about a 5 minute walk through the brush.

caught the trout on a #8 possum leech and 5X tippet. The fish hit almost at my feet, he really fought well in that high water.

[David Bolin]

Tim,

Apparently I blew it last weekend. I assumed the fishing would be more difficult after the rain. The water was clear but still high. I figured I didn't stand a chance, so I just took pictures. I'll have a rod in my hand no matter what next time...and I'm going to drop by your shop on the way. We should be in Branson later this summer for family activities. That always includes fishing.

The link to the Crane photo album is on the lower left corner of my blog. www.searcysowbug.blogspot.com

db

[Danoinark]

David

Holler at me next time you want to make a trip up to Crane. I might be able to get away. We might entice o' crippled caddis to go along.

Dano

[timsfly]

Sounds good, but it is not a creek where more than one can fish eaisly, we will have to fish each pool one to a person, if 3 people walk up to one of the pools the fish will shut off for a week and go to the bottom like a sucker, it is better fished one at a time, but one can sneak up on the pool and the other fisherman can stand back and watch, and you need drab clothing, nothing shiny. I will probably fish there again on tuesday or next friday early in the morning, those are the only times I get to fish crane except after work sometimes and in the winter I'll fish a few hrs at a time over there, I like this time of year best the hundred of snakes keep the weak of heart out of there, sometimes I'll see 30 or 40 snakes a trip, and big snakes two, they could be man eaters LOL I wish there were more snakes at taney, snakes that would eat herons.

[Danoinark]

but it is not a creek where more than one can fish eaisly,

I had not thought of that, but good advice and I could see where it would be an issue. Dano

[David Bolin]

I'll holler when I'm in the area again. Sounds like three would be a good number to fish with...one to spot fish, one to spot snakes and one to carry the fly rod.

db

[Danoinark]

I'll holler when I'm in the area again. Sounds like three would be a good number to fish with...one to spot fish, one to spot snakes and one to carry the fly rod.

db

Sounds like a plan