These creeks you guys fish are enormous! When will you do a real small creek? Like a tight New England brook, lots of overhangs, 3 or 4 feet wide in the woods, looking for small native brookies?
Same with a lot of creeks in Michigan. Michigan has beautiful big rivers (Au Sable, Manistee, Pere Marquette, et al.) but the state excels in smaller brook trout water (the brook trout is the state fish). Sometimes a 7-1/2' leader is too much. I drop to a 6-ft leader with an 18" tippet on a 7-1/2-ft 3-weight and use some small roll casts to get 8-10 feet out. I catch a lot of 8-9" brookies but that's OK. Every now and then I'll catch a 10" brookie or a 12" brown or rainbow. Oh, let's not forget the bushwhacking and all the tag alders. Sometimes I wonder why I do it... it's a lot of work, but I'm 63 and I've been doing it for 40+ years.
@sirwinston2368 oh yeah, I've got one 5' rod that gets a 50" furled leader with about 18" of tippet off that. A lot of the times I'm just dapping and the furled leaders just drop straighter and are easier to manage. That and it's a cheap rod that doesn't cast worth a crap. One day I'll get a JP Ross rod and will be able to do more than dap or bow and arrow casts with the little rod. It can get pretty tight and hairy in some spots, but the fishing is usually pretty good. I'd be ecstatic with a 10" trout from my streams, I usually get 6", maybe an 8"er once in a while. And I'm happy with that, I wouldn't fish these streams if I was looking for some giant pig trout, I'd be in the river or the lakes. Can't wait to see the new episode!
@@mikewhitman745 Our local Australian Southern Highlands creeks are much the same, with small trickles that you can step over between pools, no flow. You have to create your own movement in the fly if you want it to do anything at all. Been having a ball on the big rainbows they hold though.
Here in Australia, what you call a creek looks to me like a river lol. Our creeks you can cross with a step. They might have pool that is a few foot deep and a couple of metres wide, but much of the time they are trickles between these deeper pools. if flowing 365 days a year at all. May dry to just the pools through summer. 😆
