What is your favorite tactic in a warmwater creek?
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Favorite creek tactic
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 flyflingerandy1 |
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Posts: 78 03/26/09 2:40 AM |
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Cornmuse |
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Posts: 96 03/26/09 9:39 AM |
I like to cast the fly onto water where there are fish....
Seriously, I'm all about swinging wets on my ultralight gear. Give me a size 12 Royal Coachman wet, maybe hand a size 14 Partridge and Orange off the bend and I'm happy to swing them down and across in rock-studded runs about 3' deep. It's big fun for panfish, smallmouth and rock bass. This technique is my ace-in-the-hole for late May to early June post-spawn smallies. Joe C. "Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the
drink, taste the fruit,
- Henry David Thoreau
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flyflingerandy1 |
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Posts: 78 03/26/09 9:51 AM |
Awesome Joe, but I like the first one better ;). You like your Coachman wets huh? I have never caught a thing on them.
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jkurtz7 |
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Posts: 2511 03/26/09 9:59 AM Forum Owner / Administrator
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Tactics will vary throughout the season. I agree with Joe, swing wets or fish nymphs up through June (in Ohio anyway). Mid way through the season the fish
start looking up more (panfish) and I have more luck on dries. Terrestrial patterns work well, foam ants, sponge spiders, Renegades, Adams Wulffs, Elk hair
Caddis, Predators fished dry,
etc. Towards the end of the season, when temps aren't blazing, then I go sub surface again. J. |
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pkrotine |
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Posts: 164 03/26/09 1:06 PM |
on the really brushy ones, I love the bow and arrow cast.
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Zenkoanhead.clarksclassicfl... |
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Posts: 968 03/26/09 2:01 PM |
We don't have much moving water in the Dallas area, except during big rains. That blows the creeks out, however. My only tactic is to cover as much water
as possible til I find the fish. If the creek is clear, I don't even cast, just look. If I am unsure of what the fish want, I will use a dry and dropper.
Don
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mdwwhw |
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Posts: 45 03/26/09 5:46 PM |
I'm doing good to find a creek with water in it but, a dry and a dropper of just a simple wet of some sort--wooly worm, peacock and partridge--until I
figure out where they are and what they want.
"Everything's better when wet...."
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Robin Rhyne |
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Posts: 30 04/27/09 1:21 PM |
You know, sitting here reading this it strikes me that I have never just tossed a "dropper under a popper" in the creek and simply let it float
downstream. That might be worth a shot.
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Zenkoanhead.clarksclassicfl... |
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Posts: 968 04/27/09 4:24 PM |
You have never done that at Duck Creek, Robin? So much for my special strategy. I forgot to use it! Don
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keebranch |
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Posts: 1971 04/27/09 5:21 PM Administrator / Moderator |
Don, Heck I can't say I've used a dropper much in the creeks I fish, but Your post has got me to thinking "what if..."
Les |
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texascrappiefisherman |
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Posts: 98 04/30/09 8:36 PM |
Dropper/hopper combos work great in our little creeks. Robin the secret creek in CC is a good place for that combo.
Jerry Hamon
TPWD Angler Instructor Van Alstyne, TX |
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