Creek fishing in Northern KY?

[Battery55]

Never fished gunpowder creek, but would like to. Let me know how you did at doe run creek.

I saw the rain and expected worse. I decided not to go because I had my toddler with me. I may give it a shot again tomorrow.

[MadCaster]

I've seen some decent small mouth and various sunfish in banklick by the log cabin. Usually the water is quite clear and you can scare away any chance of catching the larger smallies easily. I catch bait there sometimes and its a pretty nice secluded get away close to where I live. I don't have the expectation to catch anything huge out of there but you'll get some good hits from sunfish tossing a rooster tail past large rocks in the water. There are four or so nice pools along this stretch of the creek, not too deep but lots of life and not overfished and full of trash like further down the stream near doe run. If you go further upstream where fowler creek comes in is another good pool, by the bridge on richardson.
If you are looking for creek chubs or crawdads for bait this creek is loaded all the way to the beginning. I've often thought about parking at the speed way on 17 and walking down the hill where the water is deeper but haven't. I imagine it's pretty polluted with the highway right there but still might hold some fish.

Edit: wanted to add that some of the sunfish in this areas are the most vibrant orange I've ever seen on a fish, quite stunning.

[Dirty-T]

NKYFISHING,

I'm actually planning to go out to Doe Run this evening and check out the creek. This is an old thread and I wasn't sure how much of the info is still valid. I like creek fishing as well. I just moved here from Western KY (close to KY lake area) and it's killing me that I don't know any of the good fishing spots. I've been following this thread and a few others to look for places to go. Any general tips?

Here are some places I've tried so far:
Gunpowder Creek (at Sperti) (Caught 1 smallmouth, too shallow most places)
Willis Music Ponds on Industrial (Nothing)
Markland Dam (Nothing)

I'd like to try Gunpowder at a different spot too, but I'm not sure where to access it with some decent depth from the bank. I live off of Gunpowder Road, so I'm looking for something within 10-15 minutes drive from my house if possible.

I fish Doe Run about once every two weeks.

The Lake-
My best luck has always been on the corner of the lake where the woods meet the walking path. Have caught numerous 7"+ bluegills there I have also caught a few nice bass 1-3lbs in that area. A canoe or kayak are really your best bet on doe run. It's a shame that it's not stocked more since the water is now back up over the banks.
It was drained a few years ago and there was a lot of nice fish that died.

The creek (Bullock Pen Creek {aka doe run creek})
something I just started doing about two weeks ago. By the church you can usually catch suckers in the wooded section of the creek and orange spotted sunfish. In the opening by the bridge there are rock bass as well as decent sized green sunfish we caught 3 today 9". There are also River Carpsuckers here when the water level is raised caught a 4 lb one today which I will post picture. I have also seen a Longnose Gar I'd say every bit of 3 feet long. And plenty of small mouth throughout the creek if you can go south on it by wadding. It's where doe run and banlick meet I believe.

[jcb]

HAWGHUNTER75,Unfortunately you are wrong!!!! The landowners do not own the creek as far as the water...therefore you can float from Ohio to Tennessee, but as soon as you step outside your boat, canoe or Kayak...you are trespassing, the landowners own the creek bottom land. Crazy I know, but this is absolutely the rule! If your floating, no worries, touch bottom, even in the middle of the creek, you are in violation, and ALL the landowners know this.By the way, The Licking river is a great Small mouth stream and the Elkorn is as well. Numerous places to access!!!Sorry, Rob1678

Franklin Circuit Judge Philip Shepherd ruled in 2013 that waders - as long as they entered the creek legally - are indeed on private property, but are not trespassing.


You’re trespassing if

>You entered the creek through someone’s property without the owner’s permission

>You’re on a property owner’s land (not the creekbed)

You’re not trespassing if

>You’re swimming, boating, fishing or wading in the creek

>You’ve temporarily anchored on the creek