10/9/2010 Salado Creek

Hello again. This morning I pretty much hit one of my normal fishing spots and got off to a crappy start. About a month ago my #3 weight rod broke and I put a new tiptop on it thinking I could fish it with a #4- I thought wrong. In my infinite wisdom, lol, I did not bother to cast it out in the yard first- so I had walked down to the creek to find out it was like casting with a broom stick. So I walked back to the car and got my other rod then fished a different part of the creek.

Starting out with a black wooly bugger I was getting few bites, same results with a brown bugger, then I changed to an olive one and the magic started happening. With the olive bugger I caught this nice Rio below on my second cast.

This spot below turned out to be a real honey hole, on my first cast to the shadow on the water further back I saw a nice bass mouth the fly but I didn't get him. Then on practically every cast I got bites, it seemed the Long Ear and greenies wouldn't let that bass have another shot at the fly even if it wanted to. I even caught another Rio in this section of the creek.



Upstream from this honey hole I saw several small bass but only this tiny one got hooked, hopefully I can catch him again when he grows up-to size. These spotted bass seem thrive in the creek and there are several approaching five pounds that I've seen in there but they are wary- guess that's how they got to grow that big. I started using 4lb tippets on this and my trip last week to see if maybe it would help me in getting the larger more wary bass to stike but the jury is still out on the results.
Moving further upstream I got another Rio on the line- they were onto to that olive bugger for sure.
I finished off using a streamer I tied the other day and caught the biggest Long Ear perch of the day, a nice fish.

Tomorrow I'm planning to hit Cibolo Creek with my dad once more, hopefully the fishing will be as good or better than I had today- I'm really hoping to catch a few Guadalupe bass or even just any bass.