Flyfished an urban creek on Saturday.
Caught some unusual fish species...including a couple "mutts".
This is my first Saugeye (walleye/sauger hybrid) on a fly. I caught a walleye and 3 sauger out of the creek last year.


This fish looks more like a Redeye Bass than anything else...but it itsn't. It has the horizontal belly lines of a Kentucky Spotted Bass, which I've caught in this creek, but lacks the lateral line stripe. Also, KSB's tend to be more greenish than brownish. I've never heard of any smallmouth bass caught in this creek (and they don't have those belly lines)....so I'm not exactly sure what the parents might be....but its definitely a hybrid bass. All hybrid black bass in Missouri get lumped together with the "Meanmouth Bass" moniker, it seems.


First Shortnose Gar of the year:


Goldeye:


I lost a nice catfish about a foot away from the net. Bummer.
But I did catch some nice Freshwater Drum again. The biggest was a new Flyrod Personal Best of 25.5":