I got a chance to go fishing with Marty Rogers founder of
DupageAngler.com. I was excited because he is always crazy busy and fishing
with him is always full of laughter.
We met way before sunlight and headed out west to a small
creek that was finally not running high from all the spring rain. Our plan was
to wade and drift fish for catfish and smallmouth using Raven floats, live bait
and long rods. For more information on how we drift fish click HERE. The one
thing I can say about Raven Tackle as it has dialed in our technique and our
catch numbers has sky-rocketed.
We had the holy trinity of live bait crawlers, leeches, and
minnows. For some reason the minnows just were not getting hit but the leeches
were. Usually it is the other way around and in a hurry we will pass on the
leeches.
This creek is very dynamic and spring rains design a new
creek each year. Most years holes that are filled in by flooding are replaced
by some new ones. This year there was only one new hole but many old holes were
gone for good. We got on fish but had to fish twice as far as we usually do.
This broke my heart a bit as three of my favorite holes were either half the
size or non existent.
Finally!
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