Tales from Turkey Creek

Turkey Creek is a great place to go when nothing is biting anywhere else and you just want to catch some fish. True it is a trout hatchery, which is made up of 4 or 5 ponds with the actual creek flowing though the hatchery, but who cares? You keep what you catch, and pay for what you keep. Prices are more than reasonable, at around $2 a pound, and the gentleman that owns the property, Mr. Brewer, is more than friendly. It really is a great place to go if you want to just hang out and have a relaxing, productive fishing trip when every place else is nothing but hard work. Mr. Brewer primarily stocks Rainbows and occasionally Brook Trout, both of which grow to average and above average sizes with a few getting into the trophy fish range. Craig and I discovered this place a few years back over a summer as we were driving all over Monroe County looking for a good place to fish. Second Creek had been a bust and we really wanted to get into some fish. We knew of a hatchery at Zenith, but found it to have long been closed. We kept driving and asked around until we eventually stumbled on Turkey Creek. It is actually pretty difficult to describe how to get there. There are a lot of back roads, and while I can show you how to get there if I'm with you don't bother asking for written driving directions as I believe it would be easier to write down how to get to the North Pole than to Turkey Creek. I'm not ashamed to admit that my citation Brook Trout came from Turkey Creek. My own brother turned in two citation Brook Trout the same day, but honestly where in the state are you going to catch Brook Trout that big? Natives don't get anywhere close to citation size, and if you do catch a citation Brook it is more than likely a stocked fish so what's the difference? It is what it is, and what it is is a cool place to fish if you want to catch some nice size trout when everywhere else you go is barley active at best.