How small is too small of a creek to catch bass?

[WIMN]

Hey there folks,

Bass fishing newbie here. Well, fishing newbie period. I am about to graduate college (1 week from tomorrow!) and I'll be moving back in with my parents for awhile. My only experience bass fishing in a river is from last summer when I went through the Yellow River in western WI on a canoe.

I was wondering how small a creek would need to be before it doesn't support fish. There's a creek near my parents house in Maple Grove called Rush Creek. I was thinking about walking down it (in the water) using a topwater like a chugbug, Rebel Pop-R or jitterbug. May use a buzzbait too. I've never heard of anybody fishing it or seen anybody in it, but it's about as wide as a driveway in some stretches, so I figured there's got to be some fish in there. I'm not sure though, since from looking at an aerial view of the Creek, it just seems to meander around and eventually disappear... Wouldn't it need to be hooked up to a lake or something to have fish in it?

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=rhrybj767zxy&lvl=18.296307087566593&dir=267.1778331558558&sty=b&sp=Point.rhryvx767ymv_Here____~Point.rhry1r767y3t_Here____&form=LMLTCC

Thanks for the advice!

[Gekhang]

my brother frequents bassets creek and catches many 25+ inch northerns and a few basses sometimes so never too bad to give it a try.

[river rat316]

it eventually runs into the Mississippi in Champlin, or at least its hooked to that system that runs into the river right at the boat landing in Champlin. People fish it all the time in Maple Grove in the spring for crappies

[LegattoAD]

The same system is hooked up with Rice Lake in Maple Grove. Just follow the creek upstream in Bing and you'll see it. It gets tricky to follow it through that patch of woods though.

Barring pollution, there isn't much good reason that it shouldn't hold fish. Take Rice Creek in Anoka/Ramsey county for example, the section that flows through where I grew up was fast and narrow. But you could catch a mixed bag where ever there was something to break the current.

[WIMN]

Well, that's certainly good to know that there's fish in it! I must have followed it the opposite direction, since that's where I've always thought it flowed when driving over it.

Thanks for all the heads up that there could be fish in it, now I'm pretty excited to head home. How would I go about catching crappie or sunnies? Just use a hook and worm?