Visited an urban creek. Its a tributary of the Missouri River.
The Missouri River remains high, but had dropped about 7' over the previous 4 days. Clearly it had backed up into this creek. Where there is typically dirt and riprap/rock along the steep banks (and usually tall weeds as well), even the rocks were now mostly covered with still-wet (and slick!) mud.
Navigating along the shoreline was treacherous. There were times I managed to slide my way down to the edge of the water to cast or net a fish....and then had to struggle my way back up the steep slick mud slope to move to the next spot. I managed to only fall once on the slick mud slope, and I also slid off a muddy rock into the water at one point (didn't fall, just got wet). Ah....if fishing were easy, everybody might be doing it, right? HA! Lets not get started on the hot weather!
Anyway... I've observed the fishing get tougher in this creek over the past couple years, as we'd had dry weather, and fish were unable to migrate up into the creek from the river. I think some new fish have arrived, which is a good thing.
I lost a Kentucky Spotted Bass that threw the fly... but managed to catch 2 Grass Carp, a Shortnose Gar, an Emerald Shiner, 2 Hybrid Sunfish, a Bluegill, a White Bass, a Goldeye, and 3 Freshwater Drum. 8 Species...not bad for this spot. Not big numbers... only about a dozen fish landed in total... but that's also typical for this spot.
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| 16.25" Goldeye |
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| Goldeye |
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| a couple of Grass Carp |
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| Freshwater Drum |
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| Emerald Shiner (?) |
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| White Bass |
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| Shortnose Gar |
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| Hybrid Sunfish |
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| Hybrid Sunfish |
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| Bluegill |
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