I had a great day Saturday with a few friends on our annual trek in Yosemite. As usual, they continued along the trail to Half Dome while I fished for a few hours along the Merced and a tributary.? Unfortunately, this year's trip was scheduled earlier in the season rather than later in July or early Augus...
Since I plan to fish some spring creeks in a few weeks I was curious, What advice would one give to someone that has never tried this ? I figured 7x and dry's will be on the menu. I guess the question would be this, Is a spring creek really that much tougher then your average sierra freestone river, or tailwa...
I am pretty sure I will be going tommorow and saturday. I will be camping on the resort side, so I will be fishing that area of the river. Haven't been to Putah in days! Got bit by the bass bug and have been concentrating on them for awhile. I have caught some pigs too! Anyways, what has been working lately? I...
I read in another post that Putah is not what would be considered a good place for a beginning fly fisher. Does anyone have a recommendation for a place that would be a better learning water for a beginner?
Hey everyone,
This summer i am going on a one week rafting trip down the grand canyon's Colorado River and I know that there is great fishing down there so if anybody knows anything about the fishing down there, rigs flies and other stuff, id like to know. I am probably a little early asking about this bu...
are there any websites or past threads that give specific times for planting fish for any rivers or streams ???.....so i can avoid em planters are no fun :(
I just got back from a trip with my wife to Hat creek and while the fishing was slow, I did manage to get caught my first brook trout.? It actually occured on thursday evening about an hour after my wife and I arrived at camp.? Caught it while swinging a soft hackle pea**** fly.? The strike came at the very la...
I just moved to citrus heights and was wondering if there were any good fly shops around. I went to keine's fly shop but they didn't help too much with any trout rivers. Any suggestion's would help.
Has anyone fished Quarry with float or off shore. Just thinking about heading out there for an afternoon, i know its stocked fish but just wondering if anyone give shoot over some helpful advise. thanks
hey oneweight just so you know the lil truckee is fishing great right now, i have gone 3 times in the last month, and have done great, first time out was 2 weeks before memorial day (more for a scouting that anything else but?i used wooly buggers for most of the day and did pretty well being my first time out...
I haven't been fishing long, I'm still learning and I have a long way to go, but I learned a very valuable lesson Monday out by the bridge..... There is a very fine line between chest waders and a bucket.
Still pretty new here.? What type of reel maintenance should I be doing and how often?? I also saw a few post about the line.? I typically just unwind everything every other time or so and wipe it down with a slightly damp cloth.? Any other tips to keep everything working smoothly??
Just back from fishing the north yuba for 3 days. It was fun, fast action fishing pretty much the whole time, The fish ran small but hit hard and fought like champs, average fish was 6 to 12 inches. Best flies were orange stimulator, or a yellow humpy for the dry's, Best nymphs to use were black copepr john...
My son and I came across this "dead" beauty floating down the Stan.? Up until then, I had not seen anything quite like that--looked more like a roach on steroids!? We took it home to investigate.? Was I surprised to find out what we have...Or think we have!!! ??? ???? *highly predacious and v...
I was out fishing one of my favorite areas this past weekend and I ran into the only other fisherman on the river.? He told me make sure you pinch your barbs the ticket is very expensive.? I asked him how much, and he said the fine is $800.00!!!? He received a ticket and said he nearly quit fly fishing after i...
What is the secret fly for the Pink Albert?? I?can almost bet that DTP is?up there catching those fish on the Upper Sac.? Anyone with a dry or nymph?pattern should send out a pattern.?
Got out to the creek sunday around 5:30.? Hit access five. didn't see another person, which was nice. Was still about 90 degrees, so I decided to wet - wade.? I may not do that again b/c the poison oak on the trails is becoming pretty hard to avoid, and waders can help with that. Anyway, as I headed out to the...
Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to use regular flies such as nymphs, streamers, or dry flies etc... in salt water in general. What I mean by if they will work is are the hooks fine with the salt and the materials on the flies, or will the salt damage the flies somehow, and this is if not using specific sal...
Finally got some stripers on a fly! Tonight from 6pm to Sunset I fished the incoming tide on some shoreline in San Pablo bay. I just caught a bunch of schoolies to 16" but all in just 30 minutes. Ordinarily nothing special but I got them all cast after cast, all topwater, and all fly fishing a clouser...
Don't know if any of you guys have heard of, or seen the video from Landon Mayer. He is a guide out of Colorado Springs,CO. My parents live in the area and im going to be fishing with Landon on Wednesday. Ill give a updated post when i get back. Cant wait!!
I had a chance to hit the Yuba both Frday and today.? A big zippo both days.? Not even a strike.? The flows aren't bad at all, but there is very little bug activity coming off.? Very, very sporadic rises.? Tried averything from dries, emergers, nymphs and evening swinging streamers on sinking tip.? The...
Hit the Stan last weekend with Emerger Cliff and his two daughters.? It was an amazing day.? Great weather and great fishing.? Cliff was?coaching his kids and they were catching the biggest fish.? The fish were hitting everything.? Nothing big, but?tons of fun.
Hey if anyone has any good tips on tying secure wings with deer hair on dry flies let me know. Lately when I tie one on, it wants to slide around and not stay on top of the hook. It is really frustrating but there has to be some secret to it.
Thanks,
Conefish
I fished Beaver Creek just past the N Fork Stanislaus today.? I went in with modest expectations, but it was pretty darn good.? First time I fished it and?I actually like the layout a lot better than the actual NF because I really enjoy fishing smaller streams. Flow was fine, water temp seemed fine( I wa...
I fished the E. Carson on saturday with a friend, did some exploring and found this little trib. It was real skinny water, five feet at it's widest with undercut banks. We caught 6 between 15" to16" with the largest being 20". Black woolies were the ticket but I think anything that look...
I was fishing to this big trout on access five, throwing everything in the box. I finally got him on a flashy olive wooly bugger that i had tied on my other rod and wasn't trying. It was a nice 23" wild rainbow trout
Hey everybody, greetings from the midwest.? Spent the day on a popular metro area trout stream that runs through Redwing Minnesota (as in the boots).? Here is my post from the MN TU page.? I made my first trip to Hay Creek, and just got home an hour ago. ?What a beauty! ?Arrived on the creek at 5pm and found...
