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