BelAirSteve
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Had a chance to fish a section of Deer Creek that I hadn't fished before - close to my house, easy access, every kind of water you can imagine - riffles, tailout pools, pocket water, deeper runs - if it were a trout stream, I would have thought I died and went to heaven.
Wading was perfect - I walked down the center of the stream the entire time, was able to cast to both banks, and caught fish the entire time. Other than tying on a popper to try to get the smallies to look up, all fish were caught on this streamer I made up last week:
Grey squirrel tail with 3 strands of pearl flash on both sides, hare's ear body ribbed with silver mylar tinsel, lead wire and bead head for weight, and a brown hen for the collar.
Caught mostly fallfish and smallmouth (4 to 1 fallfish to smallmouth) with a few RBSF mixed in. This is the first smallie I caught, and I knew I might have found a special spot. I don't think the picture does it justice - probably over 10 inches, but not bad for a small stream.
Caught a few this size, sometimes as soon as the streamer hit the water:
Caught them all ways - stripping, dead drifting, swinging, etc.
This was the average fallfish - bigger than the average from the other stretches of Deer Creek I have fished.
Caught this last decent fish, again I think it was bigger than the picture makes it look, but all of the smallmouth were very healthy and clean, and I saw plenty of fry swimming around in the shallows as I was wading out.
I will definitely explore this stretch again, in higher water, to see of there are any biggums in there!
Wading was perfect - I walked down the center of the stream the entire time, was able to cast to both banks, and caught fish the entire time. Other than tying on a popper to try to get the smallies to look up, all fish were caught on this streamer I made up last week:
Grey squirrel tail with 3 strands of pearl flash on both sides, hare's ear body ribbed with silver mylar tinsel, lead wire and bead head for weight, and a brown hen for the collar.
Caught mostly fallfish and smallmouth (4 to 1 fallfish to smallmouth) with a few RBSF mixed in. This is the first smallie I caught, and I knew I might have found a special spot. I don't think the picture does it justice - probably over 10 inches, but not bad for a small stream.
Caught a few this size, sometimes as soon as the streamer hit the water:
Caught them all ways - stripping, dead drifting, swinging, etc.
This was the average fallfish - bigger than the average from the other stretches of Deer Creek I have fished.
Caught this last decent fish, again I think it was bigger than the picture makes it look, but all of the smallmouth were very healthy and clean, and I saw plenty of fry swimming around in the shallows as I was wading out.
I will definitely explore this stretch again, in higher water, to see of there are any biggums in there!
