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Fly fishing in muddy creek

Started by Guest_smbass_* , May 16 2007 01:01 PM

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#1 Guest_smbass_*

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Posted 16 May 2007 - 01:01 PM

I got out yesterday and did a little fly fishing in a small stream that goes into Sandusky Bay here in Ohio. Most people fly fish for game fish only (which is nice ) but I go for anything that swims.

I caught...

10 Striped Shiners
5 Rock Bass
3 Smallmouth Bass
1 Northern Pike (a nice surprise and a nice fight on such a little fly rod)

I saw...
Black Striped Topminnow
Redhorse sp
Redfin Shiners
Bullhead sp

and here's a few pictures...

Striped Shiners Caught and a spawning aggregation pictured in-stream...

and a couple of the toothy creature that destroyed the little white rabbit strip streamer...

#2 Guest_drewish_*

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Posted 16 May 2007 - 01:16 PM

Very nice pics Brian. What size rod/reel/line were you using?

#3 Guest_smbass_*

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Posted 16 May 2007 - 02:12 PM

I was using a 7ft 2 weight rod and the real is an okuma 2/3 and it's a magnesium alloy real so very light weight. The Pike was only about 20" but on the light gear it was a nice catch!

#4 Guest_bullhead_*

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Posted 16 May 2007 - 02:39 PM

FUN! I always loved fishing ultra-light for the little guys, but I have to use spinning tackle 'cause I never could get a fly rod to work right. Those shiners are gorgeous.

#5 Guest_NateTessler13_*

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Posted 16 May 2007 - 05:24 PM

Those pictures of the Striped Shiner came out a lot better than I thought they would. Great work as usual, Brian.

#6 Guest_Krtismo_*

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Posted 16 May 2007 - 11:42 PM

I dont think they should call it Muddy Creek, that water seems beautiful, I wish I was standing in it right now! :mrgreen:

#7 Guest_smbass_*

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Posted 17 May 2007 - 01:28 AM

It is a poorly named creek, it stays cleaner than most in the region when we get heavy rains and gets nice and clear during periods of little or no rain like we have had lately here in Ohio.

#8 Guest_farmertodd_*

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Posted 17 May 2007 - 08:49 AM

Due to the exposure of the bedrock there, historically, it was probably one of the muddiest creeks as those systems really never achieve a channel to floodplain ratio that isn't moving loads of sediment during peak events. As well, the base of it is glacial till, and would have had some sediment coming from there. Just goes to show how much we modified the rest of the streams.

We were driving back from Findlay on Sunday and I had the thought that he we were 60 miles from the lake and were in a historic wetland of Lake Erie. In fact, it went all the way to Ft. Wayne IN.

In peak wet years, the Maumee, Portage and Muddy Creeks would have been hard to discern which watershed was which. Amazing.