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....is the best freakin fly fishing mag out there. You guys gotta read "The Drake's Guide School" it's so damn funny. If I'm reading, The Drake is what I pick up. Good stuff.

Hi All, I've been fishing Putah sporadically?for about 12 years now and have only recently figured out how to consistently catch the rainbows in Putah, but have not seen or hooked a brown (that I know of). I gathered from previous posts that the chances of catching a brown are much?better from Access #...

well i finally have some time off from work, FINALLY, i have a week off from march 29th to april 6th, and looking very forward to it.?? anyways looking to get together with captain for a 2 day trip on the 29th and the 30th. so drive where ever the night before fish for 2 days and either come back the night of th...

I'm going to be up in the Burney area at the end of March and want to fish the Pit river below Lake Britton.? Once again I will rely on some of you experts who have fished the Pit for some advice on where to go.? Best access, stuff like that.? I'll be up there for 5 days so I'll have time to explore the river. Than...

Fished the lower stan yesterday and had a blast. I caught a bunch of fish the biggest up to 14". These fish are well fed and have spunk! What was most astonishing is the diversity of the rainbow population. Some were chrome with very little spots, others were dark and had zillions of spots. I even ca...

Fished Putah for a few hours on Friday with a couple pals. Went 1 for 3 with the one being about a 22" bow hen ( My Putah personal best). Rolled what looked like a brown larger than the hen, but my knot came undone...Goes to show not to hurry riggin' up. Didn't see any small fish like what others have pos...

On pretty much a whim at 9:30 PM Thursday night, I decided to blow off my golf game and head up to the Lower Yuba.? It was a good decision.? If anyone has time this weekend, get up there, the river is ON! I fished above the Hwy. 20 bridge for about 6 1/2 hours.? Had 10 hookups, landed six and missed another 5ish...

Hey everyone! Well, I moved to Fairfield about 8 months ago, and imagine my pleasent surprise when I found out about putah creek 30 min from my house! So far, I've only had about 3 days total fishing time to devote to the creek, but I've gotta be honest...I'm gettin skunked out there! Normally, I'm the ty...

Guided the last 3 days on Putah.? Water was up to 114cfs for Sun and Mon.? dropped about 5pm down to 87cfs.? Fishing was pretty good for my clients most of which were flyfishing or at least nymphing for the very first time.? First day we only had 5 confirmed bites but each angler learned a lot and landed a ni...

Fished yesterday morning for about 4 hours.? Caught 3 fish: 16, 18 and 21 1/2.? The small fish was caught on a zebra midge, the other two on a beadhead mayfly nymph.? I hooked three other fish.? One was about 14, the second was probably bigger, and the third was truly a pig!? It fought much harder than the 2...

I am curiouse to know what is the largest trout you have ever seen or heard of caught in putah creek? I managed a 28 incher almost 15 years ago, sorry to say it was on bait, and most likely would not have landed it, but im pretty sure it was all spawned out, i assume this due to its extreme yellow coloring and la...

Well I couldn't stand being skunked for more than a couple of days so I decided to pack it up and hit the Yuba this morning.? After picking up some Skwalas at american fly and getting some good advice from Sloan the Yuba genius I hit the road with a couple of family friends and was on the water by 10:30am.? We...

Lately I have been really interested in fishing soft hackle flies.?However, I am not exactly sure how to rig or fish soft hackle flies. I tried fishing?a few soft hackle flies?this past?Sunday.? I used a standard 9-foot tapered leader with one fly and small piece of shot about 15-inches above. I fish...

Hi All, Just wanted to give a quick shout-out reminder to watch your cars - even in high traffic, paid parking areas. Today, I fished the American at Upper Sunrise and also up at the Hazel parking area just below the Nimbus Hatchery.? I was there from 3:30 until the ranger found me at about 6 pm, and inform...

Hit the Yuba last Saturday with a buddy. Hiked up from the HWY 20 bridge fishing along the way. Saw a few guys out but not very crowded at all. No one had seen any action. Later in the day around 1:30 there was some surface action that only lasted a few minutes. No fish yet. Headed back to the car at 2:30 to eat l...

Don't know if anyone saw it but there is a lengthy letter/rant in the Feb 2008 issue of Flyfisherman(page 10) about poor fishing etiquette on Putah. It is basically about someone enchroaching on someone else's spot. From the description of the location below the bridge, sounds to me like they were fi...

I got off work and headed out to the river at about 4PM with my wife.? Thank to daylight savings, i had plenty of time to fish.? No one was on the river so I had the river to myself.? I started nymphing first and did it for 20 min and only had a fingerling bow on.? Then i decided to stwitch to one of my favorite pat...

I've been fishing the American several times a week over the past two months. Watched the circus for the first month and a half or so. It was entertaining watching everyone "swing" with their huge split shot and glo-bugs. Lets just say I saw very few fish hooked in the mouth. Over the last 2 we...

Pulled into Access XXX yesterday at the end of the day?and saw a fellow fly fisherman packing up, so I was asking him how the fishing was.? He said he caught about a?20" carp?and his buddy caught two carp and a trout.? I?said?great, they usually put up a good fight!!!? He said he caught his on a midge...

Have you guys seen the cover of the new Fly Fisherman?? Landon Mayer has a monster Cutbow?trout.? It looks like 30 inches and maybe ten+ pounds caught on 6x tippet.? I think on a good day it could be possible on Putah.

After thinking about it for awhile, and talking about it with my wife almost nightly for too long, she got me a G.Loomis GL3 to build.? Does anyone have any hints for a first time rod builder?? I looked at the directions today, and well they are about as helpful as a turd in a punch bowl.? Thanks for any help...

As I am sure most of you are aware the water wars of CA have had a devastating effect on our fisheries please take 1 minute and go to the link attached to fill out a letter to our elected officials concerning this matter. The program will fill out all the informational letters to the respective officials....

I fished the creek today for a while. I went 2 for 2 but the fishing was really slow and the fish on the small side--both were around 15". That being said, what they lacked in size they made up for in power. Both put up a great struggle. Lots of bugs on the water today. Midges, aquatic moths, those unide...

Couldn't get this post up any sooner... had to go to vegas for a conference early on Friday. Got out to the creek around 5:00 and fished til dark.? Hit my usual low flow spot and hooked up with the fish below on my FIRST cast.? Always nice to get validation on your bug choice, presentation, and hook-set/la...

For those that do it, there is a new calculation for the weight of salmonoids that will actually make your fish weigh more (and is more scientically accurate). The May Fly Fisherman mag reports a study in which the formula is changed to length (to fork of tail) X girth squared X divided by 690 (instead of...

got out to the creek friday and saturday friday was good hooked alot only landed 1 but she was a beauty.? cloud cover had the fish active it seemed. yesterday was a different story clear skies and a tougher bite for me. chalk another one up to the JTspecial. Thanks for the sweet?pics and the use of the net?...

Hit the creek today fished #1 with no hits, but saw a few risers.? Moved up to the bridge for the first time in quite some time.? I figured the water would be clearer up there.? Found one spot that the fish were stacked up like cards.? The fish were hitting midges size 22 and 24.? Landed?two fish and lost qui...

Soon I will using my 9wt in the mild surf and was looking for a sinking line. I decided to put together a running line and a shooting head. I came across Rio's T-8 shooting head. I got it at Sweeney's in Napa. Its 30 feet of 240 grains at 8 grns/ft. I spooled on almost 300 yards of 20# Cajun Red mono, did a loop da...

I'm gonna be up on the creek tomarrow with my dad. we havn't been up in a while so we'll just have to see. As always any advice would be great. have a good one! Daara

Couldn't stand the beautiful weather any longer today, so went up to the creek at noon. started at Packrat's brown spot for awhile, but nothing doing there. Moved upstream by wading for about a quarter mile to get into some semi-SAW for those very long slow drifts that The Captain has been so successfu...