Blue Springs Creek fly fishing personal best

[Jthawks]

I caught six wild rainbows at Blue Springs Creek with my 7.5' fly rod 5/6wt (which costs $50 plus tax bucks from walmart lol). I used 7x leader and added a 18" to 2' of 7x tippet to it to extend the leader. I fished with a soft hackle #16. First time landing more than two trout. Caught a couple nice size ones too (for this creek at least). Had a few misses and all of them caught were within an hour of fishing. I saw a few insects flying around, but not a whole lot. It was a nice day with 5mph wind at most over the weekend. Way better than fishing Busch Wildlife for stocked trout in a weedy bank lake. I made a short video and here are a few pics below as well. I'm not sure why but when I view this ozarkangler website from my phone my video links don't show anything, but on my desktop they do. I hope the people that view this on their phones can see the link to the video. I actually talk in this video so that's new for me. Enjoy and catch you in the water. cheers!

[fishinwrench]

Success !  👍 

Now, get your credit cards out and stimulate the economy like you're supposed to.  😁

[Al Agnew]

Well done.  It's a tough creek to fish.  

[Jthawks]

1 hour ago, Al Agnew said:

Well done.  It's a tough creek to fish.  

Yes it is.

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Good video,  showed up on my phone.   Th shiners count as catches also.   

[Johnsfolly]

5 hours ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said:

Good video,  showed up on my phone.   Th shiners count as catches also.   

I agree with @Daryk Campbell Sr on a great video and some nice trout from a tough little creek. I also agree about the shiners are fish too 😉. Looked like one of them was a possible bleeding shiner. Keep those videos coming.

What video equipment are you using?

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

I agree with @Daryk Campbell Sr on a great video and some nice trout from a tough little creek. I also agree about the shiners are fish too 😉. Looked like one of them was a possible bleeding shiner. Keep those videos coming.

What video equipment are you using?

I thought that also about the bleeding shiner. 

[Jthawks]

2 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

I agree with @Daryk Campbell Sr on a great video and some nice trout from a tough little creek. I also agree about the shiners are fish too 😉. Looked like one of them was a possible bleeding shiner. Keep those videos coming.

What video equipment are you using?

I'm using a go pro hero 6. no mic just the camera on a body harness. And as far as shiners go....sure they are catches but....I don't want to drive 90 plus miles for shiners. 

[Johnsfolly]

49 minutes ago, Jthawks said:

I'm using a go pro hero 6. no mic just the camera on a body harness. And as far as shiners go....sure they are catches but....I don't want to drive 90 plus miles for shiners. 

To each his own my friend 😉. You're deal now is trout and it may stay that way. I've been there. Drove well over 2000 miles to catch a trout in all of the MO designated trout streams, included all blue, red, and white ribbon sections as well as 10 urban lakes, and found a streambred population of rainbows that I didn't even know about before. Was a great journey overall.

I have done worse for new species. Just this weekend drove over 400 miles to try for a new species of kingfish only to fish for about an hour in really bad conditions and then left in a driving rain.

Keep up your videos and as I mentioned I look forward to the next one.

[snagged in outlet 3]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

I have done worse for new species. Just this weekend drove over 400 miles to try for a new species of kingfish only to fish for about an hour in really bad conditions and then left in a driving rain.

Pictures would be nice😁