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OT-Our Fish Are Bigger-And Meaner Too!
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Hi All, As you know we play with some very big fish each year at this time. I missed last weeks adventure to Isla Guadalupe and fished Putah instead. It was a toss-up. Catch a pile of great little fighters under clear skies and perfect conditions....or miss a once-in-a-lifetime Great White Shark attac...
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Question about fishing depth.
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Now that the flows have been choked back, I am curious about how deep we should be fishing. It seems to me that fast water dictates that fish are either going to be at the seam of slow/fast water or right on the bottom behind a rock. With slower water the fish can be anywhere. I've not fished this creek muc...
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What's up with the flow?
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Hey guys, I'm coming in from out of town on business and was wanting to sneak away Tuesday afternoon to the Putah but I just noticed the flows were dropping rapidly....is it still fishable I've fished the Putah a couple of other times but it was always 250-500 cfs....any advice appreciated. Thanks,...
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REPTIALES
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HEY BRIAN WHAT ABOUT THE SNAKES???? SEEN PICS.. NEED I HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM....?????
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oh oh
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in my last message i meant to say im not to good at this...to much coffee this a.m. SORRY
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Friday evening 13th and Saturday morning 14th oct
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So, with horrible traffic, my pleasant Friday evening of fishing turned into a mad scramble to get on the creek in time to catch a few. Got on the creek about 6:00 which nowadays is 1 hour from dark. Got a few grabs tightlining, nothing to hand. Got up to a certain 'rock' and got three fish to hand, biggest...
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how fast is to fast ?
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Chuck's post on finding fish on putah got me thinking about something I'd like to ask your guys opinion on. When it comes to current how fast do you guys think is to fast to hold fish. Do any of ya actually have success in fast white water sections, Like the one at access #1 below the long slow section, that w...
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Sunday September 30th
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After drifting the Lower Sac on Saturday I stopped in to fish Putah on Sunday for a couple of hours. Caught a nice rainbow within a few minutes time and then almost stepped on a rattle snake when crossing the island at access point 3. It didn't give any pre-warning and I didn't see it until I was only a fe...
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Finding fish on Putah
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It has been said that 90% of the fish hold in 10% of the water. So I was wondering if the10% of the fishermen who catch 90% of the fish would be willing to reflect on some types of water that 90% of fish hold in 10% of the time. Good, now that everyone is thoroughly confused I was basically trying to narrow do...
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Putah Creek Cleanup Day Nov. 17th
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I saw this notice on the Napa Valley Fly Fishers Web Site about their Putah Creek Cleanup Day. Maybe we can get a group together to join them. November 17 is Putah Creek Cleanup Day. Meet at parking area 1, cleanup from 9-noon, lunch and raffle from 12:00 - 1:00, and then fishem' if you brought em'! http:...
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keith bigelow
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floating upper Solano
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hi everyone -- this is a cool website/message board you have. while searching around, I noticed an old post on float tubing in the upper part of Solano lake. my questions is, is now a productive time to do that, or have the fish mostly moved up higher in the river? any insight is helpful. thanks, matt
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10 October 2007
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I got out of lab early today, so I had to make a run for the creek. I took a look in one of my fly boxes and realized that I was running low on two of my favorite patterns--that figures! I tied a few of each and a few of a new pattern that I've been working on (a drowned bwo). Then, I was off to the creek. I got the...
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question about tippet
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well i use my normal 3x to first fly 5x to second fly, i dont keep my tippet in the car or near heat or anything like that, was doing some tying last night, and noticed that i keep on breakin my 5x tippet everytime i tightened a tie on my fly, so then just pulled a peice off the spool pulled and snap, i was like ok m...
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FISHING PUTAH IN THE RAIN
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just wondering how is the fishing when its raining at putah, is it harder easier, i know the fish cant spot you or your indicator as well. looks like there is a 60% chance of rain on friday, so eric and annie if you are gonna go bring your rain jackets, and ill be in my military gortex, but wait then you might n...
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Here's one for steaks, caught but no release
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Not fly fishing but a few of you know what I've been up to lately on the weekends. Its been a great deer season with perfect weather at times. After passing on several legal but smaller variety of blacktails. My buddy Gary and I went back deep into the hills in search of the big ones that we knew were out th...
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BLESSED FROM THE PIG GODS
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well were do i start. got my new redington yesterday in the mail. and eric got his flies, so knew we would have a decent day. went to a spot that jl told me about, def a lil walk to get back there, but can see why its soooo good. had a few on think about 4 all popped off, lilwhippersnapper, ERIC, also hooked into...
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It's been awhile
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It's been along time since i threw out a post, and its been a real long while since i fished the creek, well about 5 weeks. Which is way too long for me not to be fishing (since i usially fish the creek 2-3 times aweek, for the past 5 years), but my time off from the creek was all for good reason with my wife ju...
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Sat. Oct. 6
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It was a good afternoon out on the creek Saturday. I stopped outside access three at around 3pm and worked the pocket water up from there with a #18 BWO and a #22 midge pupae dropper. It was slow at first, hooked a nice 15-16" bow that shook me off almost instantly. Moved upstream a little and fished f...
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my st croix rod at st croix
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well just got off the phone with them, looks like they will be replacing the broken part, and hopefully the will also take a look at the loose handle, just think that part needs reglueing, i should have my st croix imperial 9ft 5wt 4pc back to me by the 19th, which as you all know is a friday, and my fishing da...
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Sunday afternoon - flows up and fish down
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So - Jcombs and I hit the creek about 2:30 and as soon as we got in the water, I noted that the flows seemed higher than on Friday. (Jordan - you'll recall me mentioning that a few times). When I got home I checked, and sure enough, they bumped them by 60 CFS - but it seemed like more than that to me. Well, as...
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Oct 5th afternoon - another epic
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It's amazing what a difference a week makes. MX-19 - that rock produced zero fish for me today, but the fast water below and above produced countless natives to 17 inches. I spent the afternoon fighting my way through bushes and fast water to get to areas that haven't been fished in a while. Seemed lik...
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Double Vision
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On Saturday I was fishing on the far side of the creek and thought I was seeing double. I hooked a fat fish and almost had the fish to net but he decided that he would hold in the current. I was watching the fish in the clear water and there was an almost identical image in the current. Both fish were 18 to 20...
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Last Saturday 09/29
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Greetings, It has been a while since I've posted but I have been jealously reading about all the activity at Putah Creek. This last Saturday I had a chance to get up there (coming from San Jose). Boy did I miss this place, it being the place I first caught a fish on a fly, a thrill I will never forget. Anyway,...
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Sat, Oct 6 , Do Trout Laugh?
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Hey All.... I've been lurking about the board since late August. You are one hilarious crew! Been tempted to post, but kind of held myself quiet out of respect, and not sure what I could contribute. A big public shout out THANKS to you all for being so entertaining and helpful. I was feeling Brian's pa...
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Problems with tippet breakage
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I am currently using a 4x leader with 5x tippet and I have been breaking fish off at the knot that connects my leader to my tippet. I recently switched from a double surgeon's knot to an orvis knot to make this connection stronger. However, I am wondering if I can buy a higher quality tippet to make this con...
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October 5th
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Caught three small native bows this afternoon in 2 hours of fishing. One came on a size 16 pt and the other 2 on a size 18 pt. Only one long distance release. Overall, it was a great time at Putah creek. -- Edited by jcombs at 20:56, 2007-10-05
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Indicator Woes
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I am currently using a foam indicator. However, I am having troubling netting fish because the indicator will not slide through the guides. How do you guys get around this problem?
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Topic of a wild trout fishery on Putah
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I saw a post by Bono in another thread where he mentions talking to DFG about designating Putah as a wild trout fishery.
Making Putah a wild trout fishery would be a great idea. The only problem with that is since it's so close to an urban area there had better be some DFG enforcement on the regs., like a f...
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monday oct 1st reports "epic"
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Worked the creek from mid day till evening.I wanted to fish a spot so bad I broke my rod down and crawled under the bushes and made a tunnel about 25 ft long...I have fished it before but the flows were always a lot lower and I was able to wade to it.I new if I could get to it at a higher flow it would be epic.That i...
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When it's good...
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Man, what a Tuesday I had on the creek. Normally I wait until late October and sight fish the bigguns who are milling around on the low flows. You gotta present to these guys just right or they just brush you off. I took some solid advice and went south of #5 and followed the river down to two sections of rive...
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