TimMurphy
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Dear Board,
Fished Big Spring Creek today from 11:00 AM till 2:30 PM. The air temp was 44 degrees when I arrived, and it warmer up to about 50 when I left under hazy sunshine. I did not check the stream temp. I began at the source and fished or stopped and surveyed most of the FFO section with no luck. It's probably been 6 or 7 years since I fished there last. Judging from what I observed I doubt I will be making a return trip to that section again unless there is an active hatch to bring the fish out of the crud.
Most of the FFO section is about twice as wide as it should be given the volume of water it is carrying. Lots of drifting algae, lots of little silty island hummocks, and a low flow make fishing tedious in this stretch. I last fished it not long after the stream improvements were done, and the holes were clearly defined and much deeper with more clean gravel. Now at the base of the improvement structures the water is barely a foot deep and silt has filled in many of the improvements.
I went downstream to the stocked section and managed to hook several trout and land two brookies on an IPW. There was more water downstream and while there is a lot of woody debris in the stream there were more clearly defined channels and runs to fish. I did not bother wading because me and silt and muck don't get along but just about everywhere I expected fish to be I at least had them check out the IPW. I saw all the fish that stuck come out of cress beds to chase the fly as it drifted by.
Regards,
Tim Murphy 🙂
Fished Big Spring Creek today from 11:00 AM till 2:30 PM. The air temp was 44 degrees when I arrived, and it warmer up to about 50 when I left under hazy sunshine. I did not check the stream temp. I began at the source and fished or stopped and surveyed most of the FFO section with no luck. It's probably been 6 or 7 years since I fished there last. Judging from what I observed I doubt I will be making a return trip to that section again unless there is an active hatch to bring the fish out of the crud.
Most of the FFO section is about twice as wide as it should be given the volume of water it is carrying. Lots of drifting algae, lots of little silty island hummocks, and a low flow make fishing tedious in this stretch. I last fished it not long after the stream improvements were done, and the holes were clearly defined and much deeper with more clean gravel. Now at the base of the improvement structures the water is barely a foot deep and silt has filled in many of the improvements.
I went downstream to the stocked section and managed to hook several trout and land two brookies on an IPW. There was more water downstream and while there is a lot of woody debris in the stream there were more clearly defined channels and runs to fish. I did not bother wading because me and silt and muck don't get along but just about everywhere I expected fish to be I at least had them check out the IPW. I saw all the fish that stuck come out of cress beds to chase the fly as it drifted by.
Regards,
Tim Murphy 🙂
