What are you throwing on tiny creeks?

[schawk26]

What fly setup is your go-to for tiny creeks?

Creeks small enough where you can only roll cast and bow and arrow.

Blue lines…2-3’ maybe at deepest

 

[Mexican Squealer]

Big yellow stimulator or ehc for blue lines and a popping bug in the warm water.

 

[trad bow]

Agreed. Yellow stimulator till fall rolls around then an orange stimulator. Greenie wiennie after a rain.

 

[Semi-Pro]

#6 hook with a fresh salamander from under a log

 

[whitetailfreak]

Threw a #12 Thunderhead with a dropper this morning and a #12 Yaller Palmer. Saw some green inch worms this morning so it's time for a weenie dropper.

 

[schawk26]

This is what I needed! Thank you all for the input!

 

[schawk26]

Threw a #12 Thunderhead with a dropper this morning and a #12 Yaller Palmer. Saw some green inch worms this morning so it's time for a weenie dropper.

What’s the distance between your dry and the dropper?

 

[whitetailfreak]

What’s the distance between your dry and the dropper?

Depends on depth of the creek. Usually 18-24" or so

 

[turkeykirk]

Threw a #12 Thunderhead with a dropper this morning and a #12 Yaller Palmer. Saw some green inch worms this morning so it's time for a weenie dropper.

Thanks for the information.?

 

[Woodshound]

In addition to stimmies, I throw adams and elk hair into tiny creeks. Wild fish will hit outsizedly large flies, in my experience.

In a creek that runs through a deep or high-walled gorge, I'll throw a worm after the water settles a bit from a good rainstorm.

 

[schawk26]

Thanks!!

Today I did use a Yellow Humpy…caught two rainbows on a quick trip.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Basically, what I can get them to hit the best and I can see good. Most of the time, they're not picky. A #12-#14 Yellow Palmer, Elk Hair Caddis, #14 yellow/orange Simulator or Female Adams will do it most times. Orange Palmer in the late summer and fall. It's very, very rare that I ever fish anything smaller than a #14. Sometimes, they're pickier, though, and you have to fiddle around to see what they want to eat instead of just slap at.

To me, a dry/dropper rig is more trouble than it's worth on small creeks-harder to cast, always getting hung on limbs or rocks, or getting all tangled up when you catch a fish on the dry and it flops and twists around. I'm usually just running a dry fly on the small creeks. If I see a big deep hole that I don't get a hit on the dry, sometimes I'll cut the dry off, tie on a weighted nymph and dredge it through there a few times.

 

[schawk26]

Went with a Yellow Stimulator this AM….thanks guys!

 

[crackerdave]

Good pics! Thanks.

 

[splatek]

Awesome!! And that doesn’t look like a “tiny” creek to me. So cool to get a slam

 

[schawk26]

Awesome!! And that doesn’t look like a “tiny” creek to me. So cool to get a slam

It’s pretty tiny above and below the falls…that pic makes it look like a big creek.
I haven’t caught a brown yet. I want one!

 

[splatek]

Whoops. I looked so quickly that last one looked like maybe a brown.

 

[schawk26]

Whoops. I looked so quickly that last one looked like maybe a brown.

I wish!

 

[splatek]

I wish!

You’ll get one. But wild brown out of small Georgia creeks are tough. The creeks in the smokies, however… that’sa good bet

 

[Woodshound]

Started with a stimulator this morning - it was mobbed by angry minnows but nothing else. I changed to an adams and had a pair of nice wild rainbows come to immediately.

Broken and pocket water were active on the creek I visited today, deep pools were quiet. Not a great elevation creek, but good temps, banks, and features.