Creek Report, Thursday 8/31

[MrSplitshot]

After a few botched attempts, finally hooked up with my buddy Don Dasher (DJD) and hit a creek to the North of town this afternoon about 4pm.

The overcast and cooler temps were nice...a little more color to the water than last week, but not much. Slight drizzle as we were motoring up the creek, but it stopped by the time we started pitching. There was a touch more current after the rain, but nothing to get excited about. I was reading 74-76 degree water all evening.

I went straight to skipping a wacky-rigged Senko back deep into cover since that tactic worked well last week. Don was tossing a lizard to start. We had a double on in no time. We had a nice spurt with several fish...then it shut down...then as it was getting dark we started getting some topwater action on buzzbaits and frogs. Don caught a nice chatterbait fish that hit twice. All largemouth this time and no big smallies, but it was a good time!

Took a couple of pictures:

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[biggw]

And this creek is where????????----notice you were in that tracker-you like it pretty well?

[redneckshadrap]

Just North of Lexington.

Billy

[smljaw]

Nice report. I'm hitting Elkhorn with JCBWorking later today. I think this might be my favorite time of year to fish the creek. High of 68 on 9/1, are you kidding me???!!! I love it!

Had some good creek brown fish in early Sept. 2005 throwing white flukes and grn/pumpkin flukes. I'll post today's results this weekend or Tuesday. I hope they're on the buzzer today!

[MrSplitshot]

biggw, I like my Tracker. For the kind of fishing I do, it suits me real well, whether I'm in a small creek or a bigger lake.

[DJD]

Thought i would throw my non-boater opinion in. That was the first trip for me in that model Tracker and i was impressed. I had five rods on the back deck with me and i had plenty of room to fish. It didn't matter if i was standing or sitting. The stability was fine and the seats were comfortable, very nice boat. Beautiful UK Blue hull is easy on the eyes as well! I heard the Louisville red hulls were slow and fragile (just kidding!)

[MrSplitshot]

The Louisville Red hulls are quick out of the hole, but they tend to choke and sputter once you get them up on plane.

:-)

[smljaw]

Hit Elkhorn Friday with JCB and his good friend, Dave. We waded and fished for about 2 hours or so. Had about 20 between us. We landed 3 or 4 in the 14-16" range. Shiners, tubes and rooster tails seemed to catch them best... Had a great time.

This cooler weather should really heat up the creek bite this month!

[redneckshadrap]

The topwater bite is here. Fish it now...no reason to wait.
Billy Elkins

www.thecreekbank.com
It's easier to let the cat out of the bag than put it back in

[MrSplitshot]

Agreed.

[jcb]

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> The topwater bite is here. Fish it now...no reason to wait.

Well, yes and no. Depends on where you go.

There are subtle time frame differences between forks of the creek, just like there are differences between areas on major impoundments.

The areas I most often fish haven't hit their peak bite, topwater or otherwise, yet. Will soon, though, and I can't wait.

[redneckshadrap]

However, 2 different creeks in the past 2 weeks actually 3 weeks have had awesome topwater action. Of course we are using Andrew's handmades. Maybe that's the difference, maybe not.
We're going to give another part of the creek a shot Saturday morning. Well see how much the water's cooled off and how the fish have moved around.

Andrew, Give me a yell....We're North Fork bound.

Billy