Those are some great shots you got there and that longear is a beauty.
Crystal clear water right out of the gin bottle quality , super shallow and in the high noon time frame . What is important is much like chasing tiny brook trout in the same size creek .
Stealth is super important and the need to not be seen by the fish . Fish will spot you in a heartbeat and once spooked are about impossible to get to bite .
Ran a tiny float and a 1/64 orange mean minner head bucktail with a number 8 sickle hook .
Depths on the float setting varied from about 10 to 12 inches above the jig to as little as 3 to 4 inches .
The larger sunfish were often in water less than 2 feet deep and watching the surface closely for bugs , some even hit the tiny float . The fish ran small , but my stealth mode was on full , I snuck up on some larger fish upstream from where I started wading in a real small super shallow pond and got into the super sneak on a gray fox lounging in the shade too !
Found me a replacement turtle for our softshell that grew to large for it's 10 gallon tank and even snuck up on a resting cottontail just because .
Couldn't get the small catfish that were visible to bite and they seemed the most spooky of all the different fish ,along with the bass that were a bit over 12 inches long too . Some fish were managed in spots you could step across the creek it was so narrow and in the end , it was just a stroll and a micro lite rod .
Used a pink crappie nibble to get them to commit to a bite as they would only follow the jig and not take it if it wasn't tipped .
Saw someone mention taking to the air and by golly one of the male bluegill jumped multiple times !
managed to ketch 58 in around an hour and half ,at least 20 or more would a been decent taco material candidates.
greens, longear ,native bluegill and small bass in the mix .
Do I belong in the creek at my age is probably a good question ,but what is even a better question is this ....do you think this is a fossil of worm castings or possibly some kind of plant type item ?
and so what if I picked a few wild blackberries to snack on while waded the creek right ?
Was a fun sunfish break and now back to chasing crappie I go .....
KABOOM is the word
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nice to have a creek close by to do a lil stalking and ketchn with. especially on a UL rod! You get to see bonus creatures for sure and finding the wild BB's to munch on is always the bomb.
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Great catch! The Longear is definitely a pretty fish. Is the first fish a green sunfish or hybrid? We get lots of them here in Clark county, NV., but can be hard to distinguish at times. Thanks for the ride!
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Great report and you had a fine trip out! Yeah, you can wade at any age but slipping and falling seem to be getting a little too common for me! My Creek is a little wider than that but loads of fun.
Bob
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Here I thought you were putting in brush piles...
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