Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Turkey day everyone! Hope you guys had a great day.

As always, I got to go to Rough Creek again. While we didn't get to stay any more than a day this time but it was still great. Good food and even better fishing. The crappie were pretty active toward the end of the day.

 I found them about 6 foot deep on some stumps right next to the dock.

 Nice one

 Caught these along with a few nice bluegill and redear sunfish. Hopefully this year I'll be able to go during the bass spawn and have a chance at getting another double digit bass from here!

Rough Creek!

Rough Creek was awesome as always, but I had a great trip this time!

Caught at least 200 crappie, Mostly on Lake Fork Live Baby Shads on my hand poured heads.

Great hunt, even with it being in the 30s that morning, We shot 5 pheasant, 7 Chukars, and 39 Quail

Biggest bass of the trip was only 6lbs. I forgot to weigh it with the bait in the mouth so it was more like 7

Jonathan came on Friday- the best day by far. I got at least 30 crappie and a few bass. I caught on a Briminator and an Electric Blue North Fork Nymph

We got out on a boat about half through the day

We were about to go to the paluxy and then Dad suggested we go to another pond on the Rough Creek property. It was 100% worth it. First cast- 2lb crappie! topwater action on the Sage Largemouth! For Comparison- the handle of the largemouth is 7 inches. That's a 15.5 inch crappie!

Then another one right at 2.3!

Best we could have wished! I got 4 crappie all over 2lbs and 1 2lb bass.

Jonathan got a bunch too. I'll post a link to his blog entry whenever he posts it. all the better pics are on his camera.

Went back today, I got 2 bass. The biggest was a little under 3lbs

Had some visitors come over to see what I was catching.

The fly- a black and red Flaming Hooker 

Awesome landscape- Cactus and Prarie Grass

Rough Creek inches closer

3 days until we leave, I can't wait! the weather's killing me though. It's a nice 70 in Coppell right now according to my Ipod. While we're there,, a cold front is going to drop that into the 30s. Jonathan and I might be wading a frozen pauluxy with the thursday night low in the 20s. I don't care. i've got warm stuff and I can handle it!


And- Check this out
http://texasfishingforum.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/5514627/Carpet_Muncher_Mud_Minnow_Repo#Post5514627
Great thread on the TFF. Proper fly porn and fish porn in my book.

I could use a little salt therapy soon. Closest to that is slinging flies at golden bonefish at the secret spot tomorrow morning. Haven't seen a carp on the fly in a while. After catching all the dreaded Troots yesterday I need to got some carp slime on my rod handle before it becomes too trouty.