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Oil Creek in the summer - 7/12/2008 7:28:57 PM   
SteelPerch

 

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Status: offline 		Anyone fish it much this time of year and have any success?  I was thinking of popping in sometime next week and just wondered if it was worth it.
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RE: Oil Creek in the summer - 7/13/2008 11:53:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		I don't fish Oil Creek that much but with the rain we have been having-look out your window, the creeks are still great for trout fishing. I have been catching fish every day by my place. This time of year on Oily Crik, you can also get into some smallmouth, usually not huge but always fun.

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RE: Oil Creek in the summer - 7/14/2008 4:14:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, it looks like I'll be fishing Oil Creek on Wednesday morning, hopefully I scare up a few trout...

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RE: Oil Creek in the summer - 7/14/2008 9:08:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oil Creek was pretty muddy looking when i passed it today.........Yesterdays rain I'm assuming........

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RE: Oil Creek in the summer - 7/16/2008 7:00:34 PM   
SteelPerch

 

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Status: offline 		Well you guys were right on two accounts. The smallmouth were biting and the water color was pretty brown on Tuesday.

I'll give the full report: 
I got to Oil on Tuesday afternoon and decided to give it a whirl despite the 88 degree temps and brown water color.  The conditions werent good for trout at all but I did land 3 smallmouth all about 10"-12".  Fun fighters on ultralight tackle.    Switched to bait and was bombarded by the chubs so I hung em up.  The water levels were perfect but the temps and mud coloring werent right for trout, but looked like things were clearing up for the morning

I got up this morning and figured I'd hit the stream early while the temps were low.  I stepped in the water at 6:30 and it was about 66 degrees outside.  Fishing the same stretch of water as the day before it was a while new ballgame.  I landed trout after trout for about 3 hours.  Many had very brilliant coloring, obviously they were the preseason stockings that got their natural color from a regular diet for the past 5 months.  Some other looked like stocked trout, probably from the early June stocking.  All in all I ended up with 21 trout this morning.   I kept two, one was a 20" Palomino and another was a 15" Brown that was a nice fat holdover.  Had a fish fry tonight, can't beat it.   I'll post pics of the Palomino and Brown later this week when I get them downloaded!

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RE: Oil Creek in the summer - 7/17/2008 8:11:17 PM   
SteelPerch

 

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Status: offline 		Here is the pic.  Unfortunately the brown was dead for about 11 hours before I took the pic so he lost most of his nice coloring.  The palomino measured in at 20" and the brown was about 16"



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RE: Oil Creek in the summer - 7/17/2008 9:07:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nice report :)

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RE: Oil Creek in the summer - 7/20/2008 10:01:55 AM   
Five weight

 

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Status: offline 		Nice, let me know the next time you go and I'll stay in your back pocket.

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