Hugo's contribution to the current weekly edition brought this question back to mind.
Here's one that qualifies.
But what about this one ??
Or this one ??
For sure - NOT.
Where do you draw the line ??
John
So how small, or big, is a small creek ??
Hugo's contribution to the current weekly edition brought this question back to mind.
Here's one that qualifies.
But what about this one ??
Or this one ??
For sure - NOT.
Where do you draw the line ??
John
The fish are always right.
Way I look at it.
If you can jump over it in places without getting your feet wet it is a small creek (burn)
If you can't it is a river.
Tight Lines
Last edited by Highlander; 01-05-2011 at 07:19 PM.
Yup! Sounds right to me!
Personally, I'd call the first photo a small creek, the next two photos just creeks, and the last one a small river.
Of course, I base this on nothing more than that it makes sense to me.
A right emblem it may be, of the uncertain things of this world; that when men have sold them selves for them, they vanish into smoke. ~ William Bradford
I finally realized that Life is a metaphor for Fly Fishing.
All "big" rivers and creeks are a bunch of "small" creeks laid side by side.
fishbum
Guess it depends on your bailiwick.
In looking at your pictures, the first one is a little larger than a small creek.
The next two I would classify as small rivers.
The third, well you stated that as it should be John.
I don't know. If you fish a variety, as to size waters, the waters fished will become apparent to you as to size.
Of course, this is from the perspective of an eastern US fisherman.
Nice pics!
Last edited by bobbyg; 01-05-2011 at 09:05 PM.
When you can arrange your affairs to go fishing, forget all the signs, homilies, advice and folklore. JUST GO.
How about these?
Regards,
Silver
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought"..........Szent-Gyorgy
Those are pretty creeks regardless of the size but it does depend on where you are from and how much beer has been consumed when telling the story about the fish and the size of the creek. My Mom lives less than 1/2 mile of the Mississippi River at New Orleans, everything else around here is small. Flying by helicopter to Ft. Bliss I saw streams in west Texas that would hardly qualify as a creek back home, called rivers. But they tell me you can step over the Mississippi up in Minnesota. Gore Creek in Vail is a Gold Medal Stream and I remember you can hop across lot of it pretty easily, I would rather fish it than the Mississippi, so I don't think size matters much.
Want to hear God laugh? Tell him Your plans!!!
Here is the way I look at it; if you can float it, it is a river, if you can't float it, it is a creek.
"The reason you have a good vision is you're standing on the shoulders of giants." ~ Andy Batcho
I figure if I can hop over it most places its a small creek. Otherwise, its a big creek, or a stream, etc. I've caught trout, no kidding, in a creek that was only a yard wide at the widest, and the trout were in a trough roughly a foot wide and a foot deep, the top of which was mostly hidden by grass. It meandered through a meadow, widened to about a yard wide and an inch deep as it passed through a campground and then dumped into a stream. People around the campground regularly stepped over it on their ways to and fro.
Cheers
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