Up The Creek …..

Anybody on here like to fish the feeder creeks on foot? I love it come mid May when (and if) the river has come up into the creeks. Standing in waders at dusk pitching plastics or crank baits into shallow riffles has got to be my favorite way to fish early season walleyes.

Usually, a high river backs up into a creek or small river and creates an area where the cleaner creek flow is blending with the tinted river water. These areas can be yards or even miles from the channel and are not normally accessible by boat. Once you find the “Mix” area, wait till dusk and bing, bang, boom!

never eaven thought of doing that but it makes perfect sense good tip keep em coming!!!

Down here i’ve done that and it is a good way too fish. The northerns come into the creeks to eat too and at times i’ve gotten a dozen of them on diffrent days fishing from the mouth of a feeder up about 200 yrds and during the day seems to be the best. When it comes to walleyes, at night has been the best for me just using nightcrawlers as bait and fishing on the bottom just like catfish. Eigther they come up creek to feed at night or they are in the holes and won’t bite during the day. Plus the occasional nice smallmouth too. Feeder creeks that are formed by spring runoff that go into the bigger rivers is a good place to drift a minnow and slip bobber along if thier deep enough for waiting crappies and any fish that feed on whatever comes along thier way. Lots of fish hang in the temporary feeder creeks by the mouth waiting for a meal when the waters dropping from back waters into the main river. Just after the spring melt and rains when the reservious are full and discharging down to normal pool levels is a good time to fish these feeder creeks, its bringing all the fish from the backwaters and the food to the mouth of the feeder creeks and into the river. When the pool is at normal level these types of creeks are gone and dried up. Drifting a minnow with a slip bobber works well. I know the color line where stained water meets the cleaner water is also good. Wading out into this color diffrence where stained meets the clear water i’ve seen walleyes laying on the sand ledge of one creek mouth in perticular, in the stained water and feeding in the clear water only a foot away. I stood there and watched the walleyes laying there when the clearer water was there, then i couldnt see them when the stained water moved back in. I watched them for an hour on this stained waterline come into view and go out of sight. Feeder creeks when the water gets about 40 degrees is a good place and time too start.