Hickory Creek Action

[Chief Grey Bear]

Late in the day Sunday my son and I hit Hickory Creek for a little C&R R&R. We started about 1:00 and fished until 3:00 or so. We got a total of 2 rainbows, 1 brown and one of the largest Goggleyes that I have seen.

That is also the first brown trout I have caught in Hickory. It was also a male. As I was removing the hook, he was squirting love potion #9 everywhere.

[chub minnow]

Wow, I've never even seen a brown in Hickory much less caught one. Is the MDC stocking these? Are other people stocking this creek? I'm always full of questions. Just curious by nature, I guess.

[ollie]

Normally the Neosho Hatchery does the stocking, but the state could have done it this time. I know down on Capps that the hatchery normally stocks there, but sometimes the state does also. That's straight from the manager at the hatchery.

[mhall02]

Perhaps he went down Capps, into Shoal and eventually up into Hickory? Humm....

[Chief Grey Bear]

Wow, I've never even seen a brown in Hickory much less caught one. Is the MDC stocking these? Are other people stocking this creek? I'm always full of questions. Just curious by nature, I guess.

I don't know how he got there. But I'm also not the only one to have caught one in there.

BTW, you don't drive a blue electric car do ya?

[chub minnow]

Nope I drive a yellow FJ, you can't miss it. As far as a brown making it from Capps, I don't see him surviving all of the bridges and wastewater in between. Have you ever counted the number of chicken houses on Shoal?

Now then, how did that golden trout get in there a couple years ago? I think someone is messing with us.

[Chief Grey Bear]

Well, yer gonna have ta help me out here. I draw a blank at FJ.

Are you positively sure they are not stocked in there? I have always been under the assumption that they are. Otherwise I wouldn't think they would have a length limit on them.

It sounds as if you doubt my catch.

[chub minnow]

Not doubting your catch, I just thought they only stocked rainbows in Hickory. I don't know where I got this idea other than I thought they usually stocked browns in streams that had potential for natural reproduction. I don't think that little stretch of Hickory fits that description, but again, maybe I'm wrong.

The ride is a yellow Toyota FJ Cruiser.

[Buzz]

I'm not sure if they actually stock very many brown trout in Hickory Creek, but I think the signs all over the creek say something about the length limit for them. There may be a certain amount that are put in accidentally. I've never seen one before and I've been fishing there for over twenty years, but I believe they are in there.

As far as the Golden Rainbow Trout from a couple of years ago, I was the lucky guy that caught him. I still don't know how he got in there and how nobody saw that crazy looking fish in that little hole.

I fished Capp's Sunday and caught 10 Brown's and 5 Rainbows. Got some nice pics of the browns. Some not much more than 6 in. long.

[KingFisher007]

wow those are some beautiful fish indeed.