Stealth is the word ....pic heavy

Crystal clear water right out of the gin bottle quality , super shallow and in the high noon time frame . What is important is much like chasing tiny brook trout in the same size creek .
Stealth is super important and the need to not be seen by the fish . Fish will spot you in a heartbeat and once spooked are about impossible to get to bite .
Ran a tiny float and a 1/64 orange mean minner head bucktail with a number 8 sickle hook .
Depths on the float setting varied from about 10 to 12 inches above the jig to as little as 3 to 4 inches .
The larger sunfish were often in water less than 2 feet deep and watching the surface closely for bugs , some even hit the tiny float . The fish ran small , but my stealth mode was on full , I snuck up on some larger fish upstream from where I started wading in a real small super shallow pond and got into the super sneak on a gray fox lounging in the shade too ! :kewl
Found me a replacement turtle for our softshell that grew to large for it's 10 gallon tank and even snuck up on a resting cottontail just because .
Couldn't get the small catfish that were visible to bite and they seemed the most spooky of all the different fish ,along with the bass that were a bit over 12 inches long too . Some fish were managed in spots you could step across the creek it was so narrow and in the end , it was just a stroll and a micro lite rod .
Used a pink crappie nibble to get them to commit to a bite as they would only follow the jig and not take it if it wasn't tipped .
Saw someone mention taking to the air and by golly one of the male bluegill jumped multiple times ! :ThumbsUp
managed to ketch 58 in around an hour and half ,at least 20 or more would a been decent taco material candidates.
greens, longear ,native bluegill and small bass in the mix .
Do I belong in the creek at my age is probably a good question ,but what is even a better question is this ....do you think this is a fossil of worm castings or possibly some kind of plant type item ?
and so what if I picked a few wild blackberries to snack on while waded the creek right ? :Rofl
Was a fun sunfish break and now back to chasing crappie I go .....
KABOOM is the word :highfive

Those are some great shots you got there and that longear is a beauty.

Possibly a prehistoric funnel cake.

Interesting fossil for sure

nice to have a creek close by to do a lil stalking and ketchn with. especially on a UL rod! You get to see bonus creatures for sure and finding the wild BB's to munch on is always the bomb.

Great catch! The Longear is definitely a pretty fish. Is the first fish a green sunfish or hybrid? We get lots of them here in Clark county, NV., but can be hard to distinguish at times. Thanks for the ride!


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Great report and you had a fine trip out! Yeah, you can wade at any age but slipping and falling seem to be getting a little too common for me!:Rofl My Creek is a little wider than that but loads of fun.
Bob

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Those are some great shots you got there and that longear is a beauty.

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those baby blue fins are really easy to spot in the clear water over there , often times those get spotted way before some of the other species .:highfive

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

Possibly a prehistoric funnel cake.

Interesting fossil for sure

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:Rofl might be so , them cave folks were creative you know :Rofl
I think somehow I remember someone telling me it was plant based , but I am not sure :dono

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Great catch! The Longear is definitely a pretty fish. Is the first fish a green sunfish or hybrid? We get lots of them here in Clark county, NV., but can be hard to distinguish at times. Thanks for the ride!


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it appears to be pure green to me , have yet to see any sunfish in that stretch of little ponds and creek hybridized, it is interesting though that in such small waters with so many species of sunfish that they all seem to be straight run ?:dono

Here I thought you were putting in brush piles...:Rofl

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Here I thought you were putting in brush piles...:Rofl

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over there them are used to sneak up on unsuspecting wildlife sir , :Rofl
all kidding aside they trimmed heck out the jungle there along the creek both sides .
piles of brush everywhere and lots of great habitat destroyed :banghead
bet that fox lost it's home and is trying to relocate .

The "fossil" reminds me of something I have seen many times at the new-to-me lake I have been fishing. I see this floating "stuff" big as a softball, even a soccer ball, that looks like it's made of rock but it floats and the waves take it across the surface. It looks a bit similar to what you have. The only explanation I have come up with after inspection is that it might have something to do with nutria or beaver lodge material. There are a lot of nutria on this lake and probably some beavers because there are several what appear to be beaver lodges. I am not aware of nutria building lodges, I thought they just dug burrows. Anyway, this "stuff" looks like it could come from the mud and stick concoction that beavers manufacture when building a lodge. It doesn't seem possible for it to float but it sure does. I was thinking that the plant material and also maybe air bubbles within give it the buoyancy. Then again, I do not know what this stuff is. I have never seen it anywhere else.

Is that a spark plug next to the stone funnel cake?

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Is that a spark plug next to the stone funnel cake?

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not sure what you are seeing , but to be sure humans leave trash all over the place and when the water runs thru there it probably carries some of everything with it . this spot runs for miles right thru the middle of an kinda upper end housing area . there are ponds about every mile or so along this drainage and one of them up on the top end is large , never been that far up , the one I hit is about a mile from where we park and silted in to the point its about a swamp and that is far enough walking in the creek for me

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The "fossil" reminds me of something I have seen many times at the new-to-me lake I have been fishing. I see this floating "stuff" big as a softball, even a soccer ball, that looks like it's made of rock but it floats and the waves take it across the surface. It looks a bit similar to what you have. The only explanation I have come up with after inspection is that it might have something to do with nutria or beaver lodge material. There are a lot of nutria on this lake and probably some beavers because there are several what appear to be beaver lodges. I am not aware of nutria building lodges, I thought they just dug burrows. Anyway, this "stuff" looks like it could come from the mud and stick concoction that beavers manufacture when building a lodge. It doesn't seem possible for it to float but it sure does. I was thinking that the plant material and also maybe air bubbles within give it the buoyancy. Then again, I do not know what this stuff is. I have never seen it anywhere else.

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petrified water rat poo poo ?.....oh dear me ......:yikes

Upon closer inspection, it seems to be a beer bottle.Attachment 405069

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Yeah, I think the beer bottle is it. There is never a lack of careless slobs when you are on the water. It is one of the reasons I hate opening day. Every casual slob fisherman is there and no thought to carrying anything out. When the water is low on my home stream it is enough to make you cry. Tires buried so deep you would need a tractor to pull them out. With our recent storms I expect to see a lot of junk washed up over the banks.
Bob

Even though it might be nowhere near the ocean it looks like coral to me. Another possibility is a lightning strike hitting the ground hot enough to fuse sand and other rocks together.

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Even though it might be nowhere near the ocean it looks like coral to me. Another possibility is a lightning strike hitting the ground hot enough to fuse sand and other rocks together.

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might be some kind of fossilized coral , we see lots of nautilus fossils and I mean tons of them and other things like sand dollars and such fossilized in this area . a bit south of us 30 minutes or so is fossil shark tooth heaven as well .

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Upon closer inspection, it seems to be a beer bottle.Attachment 405069

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didn't notice it until now , but yes sir it appears to be a beer bottle . not surprising though as the creek has a pretty decent amount of trash build up along the edges . being in an area with houses and streets surrounding it it sort of amazes me there isnt a terribly high amount of trash along the shorelines . there is a who cares attitude in the general population and to make it worse the park folks have trash cans all long the walk paths , you would think folks could put it in the trash can , but why bother right ? :banghead