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So I decided to check out Goose Creek downstream from Rt7.  Passing over it on the way home from Beaverdam it looked like there was plenty of water.  That wasn’t really the case so I had to some pushing with the paddle despite doing my best to stay in the deepest water.  Closer to Riverside Pkwy I found some deeper spots.  I could see plenty of small sunfish and occasionally some bass.  There was a big log next to shore with about 4ft of water.   Bass were schooling there but they weren’t hungry.  One had to be at least 2lb.   The bitsy minnow and beetlespin were ignored.  They were curious of some plastic worms.   


So I continued downstream and eventually swapped out the white bitsy minnow for a fire tiger one.  I couple casts of that and it got nailed about 10ft from the yak.  Setting the hook resulted in what looked to be a palm-size sunfish flying past my face and coming of the hook before it hit the water on the other side of the yak.  I guess there’s fish there.  A couple more casts and I got this 10” smallie.  It put up more of a fight than any of the LMB I’ve caught this year. 




Down by the bridge I caught these uhh…whatever they are sunfish.  Are these Longear hybrids or something? I can't find any photos that match these exactly.




One little greenie too.




Also saw a ~15” channel cat swimming around under the bridge. 


On the way back, still using the firetiger bitsy minnow,  I got another smallie, 9”.  Another tough fighter and it jumped for me.



And some more sunfish.





Then I hooked up with what had to be a 2lb+ LMB. It was sitting under some branches along the bank.   It wasn’t fighting at all compared to the smallie, but a shake of it’s head got it off. : (

In this same area I saw some 10lb carp swimming around.

Got one final smallie, again 10”, on a cast I really wasn’t expecting anything since it was really shallow but happened to be under a large overhanging tree.  This one jumped for me too.   It's lower jaw looks like it got split in two at some time but has since healed.






Not bad for just a few hours.  These are the first smallies I’ve caught in the creek.