Hay Creek

Who says winter isn’t for fishing?! While it isn’t as cold here as it was in New York before I left for break, the fishing seems to be significantly slower. I found some success last week with a nice 18” brown trout, but since then, I’ve had two unsuccessful trips to the nearby spillway. Today, I found myself with an hour of daylight left wanting to catch some fish, so I drove five minutes down the road to a frequently productive stretch of creek. Within the first few casts I landed an extremely pretty wild brown. I think the cows were jealous of my catch. However, this was my only fish of the day. I ran into an old friend today too, a palomino I had stumbled upon about five months ago still occupying the same section of creek. Like he did over the summer, he followed my lure numerous times without committing.

Fished for a while in Hay Creek and landed 5 species. One was a sucker that seemed to have went after the crank bait surprisingly.

Caught some great fish this afternoon, including a near 17 inch Brown Trout that bit on a roadrunner. Caught two other browns as well as a small fallfish. Surprisingly hooked an even bigger brown, that unfortunately spit the hook after about 3 seconds.

Fished Hay Creek for a bit and landed 4 different species, Brown Trout, Largemouth, Fallfish, and Shiner. Got most of them on a Panther Martin.

The trout were biting today but so were the chubs. Caught a rainbow, two browns, and about 3 dozen fallfish. Got all of them on a little Panther Martin rooster tail. #Catch22

Did a bit of afternoon trout fishing after a storm and landed a little brown. Got it on a 1/10 ounce jigging spoon.

Fished for a while at Hay Creek today and landed a beautiful Brown Trout and a nice creek chub. Lost a couple others that may have been trout as well.

I was fortunate enough to catch a beautiful little Brown and a baby Smallie today at Hay Creek. Got them both on a Panther Martin.