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:...
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
Hey guys I was just bored at work today (as usual) and I found a bunch of trailers for the new 2007 Drake Magazine Film Awards.? Some of the clips are really cool including the new AEG film from Iceland!?? Check out the website if you have an hour or so to kill and/or you are in need of an instant fish fix. here...
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...
Fished the lower Sac yesterday on a nice float with a guide in training. He was great and the fishing was too. Hooked around 15 and landed 11 or 12...beautiful rainbows all 14 to 17 inches, one 17 inch steelhead and a real nice small mouth bass on one of the little creeks that feed into the river. Fox pupa, s...
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...
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...
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...
i have 4 snakes available for adoption... 13 ft 100% het albino female burm about 90 lbs 8 ft albino male burm breeding pair will also come with custom built cage by yours truly and its truly bad ass i also have some very healthy geneticly breed baby boas, have pics of parents if needed, which i no longer ha...
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...
?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...
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...
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...
This weekend is my annual three day float trip on the deschutes, and we are saving a day to fish the upper sac on the return trip. I thought about fishing around pollard flats, but I have never fished on the sac, lower or upper. Can anyone help directe me in a direction that would allow two people to fish for...
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...
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...
I fished the Truckee for three days over my birthday weekend.? It was an awesome time.? I caught a ton of fish although I didn't land any really big ones.? My best was about 16" rainbow that absolutely mauled a big #4 bunny leech as I stripped it behind a rock in about 10" of water.? That was fun!...
Just back from an awesome trip to the upper sac. and mccloud rivers. Got there last wendsday about 10 a.m started fishing about noon at the cantara loop access area and only caught 2 rainbows in about 3 hours of fishing, had a few other missed hits I think. Then it happened, I finnally fell in the river . No...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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
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?
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...
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...
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...
So, while Brian was busy breaking his new rod, I was busy setting?a new personal record for hooked fish, every single one a native, most between 10 and 17 inches, and countless - I mean countless hooked and lost PIGs.? I hooked a PIG that was so strong, the hook melted from the friction as it sped down stre...
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