Finally getting time to post this.
We have family here from N.J. and Oklahoma. They are grand kids and great Grand
Kids.along with the adults.
The White river has been running a lot of water so I was not able to take the
kids out in the boat to fish. On Thursday afternoon we decided to check out the
lake. It was still high but we did find a spot where the kids could fish. It
was a bit steep and brushy. Checked out the brush and let the kids get down to
the water. The lake water was over a lot of brush that is normally out of the
water so a lot of hang ups were expected. We rigged up the kids who range in
age from five to nine, with spinning rods bobbers and worms. They started
catching Bluegills almost at once. One of the four year old Great Grand Twin
caught a real nice Largmouth about 12". I rigged up my fly rod, tied on a
Peacock and Bronze and started catching Gills from about the second cast. I did
get hooked up in the underwater brush and lost a couple of flies. The kids did
too but we were able to fish. I got about 10 gills before we quit, it was just
getting too hot.
My son in law wanted to fish so I told him we would check out Crooked Creek
early Saturday morning. The Creek had been too high to fish for a while. We
drove over to the creek early Friday morning and found it still high but it was
wadeable, you had to be careful. I was using my 7/9 bamboo rod and my son in
law was using the 7' bamboo rod I made for him 10 years ago.We tied on a couple
of Peacock and Bronze and got in the creek. Before I started to cast, my son on
law was already on to fish. In spite of the creek being a bit high, swift
current and a bit colored, we were catching a good number of Gills. Then Steve
got the first Small Mouth, it was not a very big one but his first. A bit later
I got a Smallie, Then some more gills and he caught another Smallmouth about
9".. Working up the creek, we would hit hot spots that would yield 8 to 10
Gills. I was only able to get up to the first riffle but Steve went up to the
"Carp" hole. He got into a couple of
Small Mouths up there. He said he could see some real large Smallies but could
not entice them. It was starting to get hot so I was about ready to head back
to the van. I got back and took off my waders and thought Steve was right
behind me. I was getting worried after about a half hour and was going to go
back to the creek and check on him.
I finally saw him coming through the brush. He was on his way back down when he
hit a hole that was producing fish. He told me he took about 30 Gills from that
one hole..
We lost count long before we quit but I know we took over 100 gills and
Smallmouths along with a Roach and a couple of Goggle Eyes in the 4 1/2 hours
we fished.
It was a good day for both of us.
Arkansas Tony
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