Didn't realize it was time for the creek crick debate for the year yet. And yes I'd read that sentence as crick crick debate lol

(In reality Patrick F. McManus explains it best)

Correct

Might be a bayou....

Streams and Brooks are where us civilized folks with

Fly rods ..harvest trout with hand tied flies.

Cricks and creeks are where Goobers fish with spinning

Rods and Gaahden Hackle...

Or a big live yellow grasshopper on a flyrod. get breakfast pretty quick

Who ya hollerin' at down by the crick?

I have a capped spring right behind my house. It runs down a ditch, makes a sharp left turn, drops around 148 feet over the course of the ditch and then disappear into the ground. The capped Spring runs about 10 months out of the year. At least 4 other, unimproved springs also empty into that ditch. Another big spring runs towards it and disappears into the same spot. A more temporary spring comes in at a right angle to the other two and also disappears in the same spot.

After heavy rains, the bigger ditch can have over a 15' wide embanked flow that is over 3' deep, with some water escaping the banks. All that water still disappears into the ground. It's somewhat amazing. There has to be a cave or sinkhole, covered with gravel.

Keith

… what’s strange is around here the road signs will call the same size bodies of water creeks and bayous… wonder what the difference is lol

Same here. Maybe stain of the water. lol

…. Maybe it’s a bayou if a Frenchman washed butt in it at some point in history lol

Cricks out here are called rivers.

Perfect! I have successfully flushed out all of the crickbillies in here. A good many of them anyway.
Now if I can figure out how to stealthily draw out all the warshbillies. I have more respect for them. I come from a long line of them actually. At least they don't spell it wrong. lol

Crick crossing and youins. A brushy ditch is a draw. I once heard a guy call a pond a hole of water. Not yes but yep.

We got some swamp billies here, they live along a crick....

Spring branch, Crick, Creek, Stream, River, Ocean.
Fill in the blank.

Hey! I resemble that remark. LOL

A spring originates on my property and flows down through a neighboring farm.

The Pennsylvania Stream Map calls it an Unnamed Tributary to Pine Creek.

We call it “the spring crick.”

The spring crick does a great job of removing the odor from caught skunks that have sprayed. An overnight soak, a day to dry and they’re ready to skin.

It is also the site of our annual early spring Rubber Ducky Race as well as an endless source of entertainment for grandkids exploring for tadpoles, crayfish and all sorts of other aquatic critters.

I grew up, sort of, (still act 12) beside Charlie Creek.

I shall make a vibrant effort to enunciate properly in my quest for discussion on this venue However since our brooks and streams in the region of my domicile are thoroughly ensconced by a myriad of cedars tag alders and multiple willow species a properly heeled gentleman with rod and fly would experience extreme difficulty in his quest for trout Perhaps such a harrowing experience would result in said sportsman's seeking medical attention for several cricks in his skeletonal structure

Best rod and bait for those type of "cricks" is a shotgun with #7 1/2 target loads....

If you live near Pittsburgh, it’s Turtle Crick, not Turtle Creek.