santa at steven's creek 12/25/06

santa didn't bring the fish with him, neither did the recent plants of trout.  trolled what is left of steven's creek (way way low) xmas morning for nada.  since is so low i took a tour to check out all the structure and the normally submerged forest on the upstream side of the rez.  spent about an hour picking lures off the now exposed tree-tops like picking berries of bushes.  most of them were rotted plastics and rusted jigs, but came home with a kast-master, jitterbug (real old looking), rooster-tail, crankbait and a couple jigs for my son's tacklebox.  put new hooks on them and good as new!

Hey greg, sell those babies on ebay and retire early,  .

what did you troll with? how fast? did you see the clouds of crappie (or whatever they are)
in 40 feet?

I marked a lot of fish there a couple weeks back.

didn't think to spelunk for old lures! good idea.

J

i was trolling a fire tiger shad rap till i donated it to the underwater forrest.  i didn't have my fish finder, not that i could see any fish on it anyways.  dude from shore said he landed 5 the day before on powerbaits.

 
by the dam or the ramp?

santa should have got you a new sonar unit!

J

i trolled the whole lake, it only took about 30 minutes!  santa did bring me a fish finder but i hadn't unwrapped it yet.  now i'm ready to slay some fish!  you fishing anytime rest of this week, i was thinking lexington?

I heard from the guys at FW that the F&G was ready to stock Steven's creek BUT the gates were locked....so they did not bother to wait and decided to dumped the fish on the Perc Ponds instead  Too Bad....cause I hate fishing the Perc Ponds 

wow, that's sucky news for us west bay types.

Ive been there a couple times in the past few weeks, on shore and on the kayak. I didnt catch anything or see anything caught. But the water is waaayyy low, its pretty cool to see all the regularly under water stuff in the back.

hey thanks for the update!