Spring Creek Help

Question
Jack,
I am fishing Seminole in October from the 14th through the 22nd. I plan to spend most of my time either up the Flint on Spring Creek. I see that you live on Spring Creek any information you can give me on this area would be a great help.
Thanks,
Eric  

Answer
Eric; Yup I live on Spring creek about a mile above Reynold's landing.  I have lived here since '93 and have had some great fishing here.  You did not say what fish you are after or will any fish that will bite do?  I am going to assume the latter.

I am largely a bass fisherman although in season I fish for brim and shellcrackers and crappie.  All are to be found in the area where I live.  Due to the heavy concentration of hydrilla bass fishing is best along the creek channel and a few other deeper holes.  Starting about Rattlesnake point the creek channel winds it's way upstream through the standing timber.  Just above the point on the west side of the channel and part of the east side is deep water (over 20' which is deep for this lake).
Crappie fishing should be getting good along the channel between Rattlesnake point and the channel going toward Cyprus lake.  Live minnows fished 8-12' and sometimes jigs deep among the stumps has been a good area.  A bit upstream at the cut going into Reynold's landing and on the left side of the cut has produced both bass and crappie in the fall.  By going toward the landing about half way between the first piling and the end of the stumps on the right is the creek channel coming down from the point on the distant shore.  If the lake is low as it is now the channel is easy to find if the lake is up near full pool it is difficult to find.  Using a depth sounder you can tell you are in the channel if the water is around 18-20 feet deep.  Outside the channel it will be around 12-14 feet.  All along this channel on both sides I have found bass but more the closer you get to the point.  When you get close to the point don't neglect the little cove there.  In that cove and along the docks I have caught some really nice bass as well as the creek channel.

Coming on up the boat road past the junction leading to Reynold's landing you will cross a large area of heavy hydrilla.  This is mostly a shallow flat from three to 10 or so feet deep.  When you come to the first group of stumps on the right my late brother in law used to catch a boatload of crappie there in the evening and night.  Those stumps can produce some bass too.  There will be a small break in the stump field then the stumps will be on both sides. (caution: You may run at speed in the channels marked by the pilings but unless you know the lake do not go fast anywhere outside the marked channels if you treasure the bottom of your boat or lower unit.)  Just after the stumps are on both sides and you are headed upstream (essentially north), and just after you pass the piling in that area the creek channel crosses the boat channel. It is difficult to see even in low water but it is detectable with sharp lookout.  To the right it bends and runs along the edge of the stumps between stumps and hydrilla.  Then bends back north toward the cut going through the islands over to the Flint River arm.  I have caught bass all through this area.  If You go on up the boat channel to the pilings indicating the cut to the Flint side and take that channel until you come to a small group of stumps on the left not far from the pair of pilings.  Turn right and fish that area.  I caught two nine pound bass in that area.  If you turn left at that little group of stumps the channel follows the stumps on the right with only a few scattered trees (dead) on the left.  Fish the right channel break for bass.  That channel will go almost straight then just as it makes a slight left curve look on the left for a few sticks sticking up.  There will be one arm pointing to the right. follow the pointer and you will enter a little slough.  The mouth of that slough, just across from the pointer is the deepest area I have found in this part of the lake.  It should read 25-26 feet. Up that slough I have caught some really nice crappie in the evening on both minnows and jigs. If the wind is blowing kind of cold is the best time with jigs.
A little further up the channel bends sharply left and crosses the boat channel. There are pilings there.  The creek continues toward the shore on the West side. Where the creek then bends sharply north about 100 feet from the bank is another place where I have caught both crappie and some nice bass.  

I could go on but this will probably be enough for you to find some fish in October if a cold front doesn't come through.

When you get here if you wish give me a call and maybe I can answer other questions.  My phone number is 229-861-2366.

I hope this has been of some help.  Thank you for calling on me to answer your question.

I am

Jack L. Gaither  (JackfromSeminole)
[email protected]