Spent the morning on the upper creek at the bridge and down from the resort. Caught a 15" on an Otter soft egg below the bridge, my first fish since late December. Moved down below the resort and switched to my variation of JT's drowned midge, size 22. Caught a? 20-21"? female after a struggle...
got on the water around 8:00. we made it two minutes into the trip and my dad and i both got takedowns. we both missed the first hookups. we missed a couple more when i finally got one to stick. in the middle of the day i hooke into a nice fish. it was huge. i kept on getting it close when it would take off for anot...
Fished with a guide from below lake Camanche to the town of Clements just above Lodi.?? We hooked up with 15+ fish.?? Most 1/2 pounders, but three wild adults. If you find the right hole, you can take out lots of fish.?? We probably took 8 from one hole we stopped at and fished from shore.? No fish under 15&...
Hit the Lower Yuba yesterday.? Fished 2 sections between the HWY 20 bridge and Sycamore.? It's been 2 years since I've been skunked on this water, but yesterday was the day.? Two of us fishing hard all day, and nothing.? We threw a wide variety of bugs, Skwalas ( green and brown, size 4-8-10), golden sto...
If any of ya live in the eastbay area or are in the are you should really check out creative sports fly shop in pleasant hill. Really good people run it and they always have what I have needed at the same price as if I was to order it online. Its a small shop that is well stocked. Just thought i'd give my local fl...
I fished the American this morning before class.? I hooked six (four adults and two half-pounders), landing one.? Two fish took a #6 black leech, two took a #14 Hare's Ear, one took a #16 San Juan Worm, and one took a #14 Copper John.? There were tons of mayfly spinners in the air.? There were even fish tak...
I?have a Scott V2 9ft 4wt 2pc rod for sale. It is brand new (never been fished). It comes with rod tube and warranty card. Asking $100.-- Edited by JT at 13:16, 2008-02-16
Had a great day on the creek today.? Perfect weather and not too many people around.? I caught three fish with the biggest one at 17 1/2 inches.? The others were 16 in.? They were not skinny looking spawned out fish.? They were males with some big shoulders on them.? Then, just when I thought that things c...
Alright, I'll show you where.....here is the location where the browns I posted a while ago were caught. If you're familiar with the area behind the island at #5, this might look familiar to you. This is a shot of my buddy working the small run where the browns were pulled from. It's tricky to get in here a...
I believe one leg of the bicycle race is going to pass Putah Creek from Napa to Winters on Tuesday next week. Just a head's up to everyone. Will they close the road? I just happened to talk with someone about the race and found out about the course.
I have a whole week off next week and im gonna fish till i cant stand so if anyone wants to hit any river anywere let em know id prefer to fish for trout but whatever...lemme know peace,
Hello, I've been reading the post for over a year now and finally decided to sign-up. Just curious to know if anyone has any experience with the Nor-Vise rotary system and their retractable bobbins. I have a DynaKing Kingfisher, which works just fine, but have been interested in the Nor-Vise and its q...
Here are a few patterns I tied up over the weekend to use on the American next Tuesday. I should have used a bigger size of chennile on the poopah but didn't have any more, should still work though.
Back in high school I started to tie flies, mostly dries, and I even caught trout on them, but stopped soon after when life got busy and I just didn't get out fishing much.? Now I can burn through nymphs like beer-nuts on a Super Bowl Sunday so?I'm curious about how many of you tie your own flies, a...
Fished 4 hours midday starting at the usual area. Used my new flies, a copper brassie and then a RS2. At the end of a long drift downstream, the RS2 got slammed and the fish made quite a few knuckle busting runs as I adjusted the drag slightly. The fish was unusually strong but there were no obstacles to bre...
I'd like to fish a caostal river for steelhead anything like the trinity, eel, madd, mattole, van duzen, pretty much anywhere. Was lookin to see if anyone was interested in hookin up for this, Maybe someone who knows some of these rivers. Lookin to do this in the next 3 weeks or so, Leave early on a friday...
I was the only one out there 1130-230. Sunny, getting warm, water clear, slow, and low. Skunk at the easy spots so I went exploring and found some holes. But again, I didn't see any fish. I threw a little anyways. A lot of o the shoreline is moist, muddy and slippery. Be careful. -- Edited by throwinmetal a...
?? spent the goooood part of the day with bono and a friend of mine on the puuuu dident catch put learned some new skills to use next time i go out..all i can say about bono is he knows his s---...i guess that comes from living on the water like he has....THANKS ALOT BONO....
well fished it all day, meet up with matt r later in the day, he has been slayin them out there as well. i went 3 for 4, 28"er, 30"er and a nice lil 21"er. to big boys caught on chucks hand made streamer, the lil guy on a glo bug. ill be out there weds and probably friday as well. great day for fis...
? Fished a spot at buck tail?that we have nicked named the circle of trust...got into 3 fish there all on a yellow golden stone..moved down river a bit and fished just above the campgrounds at steelbridge and found one more fish.It was a tagged wild buck and now Iam 10 dollars richer...My good freind JW j...
The March issue has an interesting and informational article on the effect of the CA stocking program on trout fisheries and ecosystems throughout the state under the Stream Watch byline by Deanna Spooner.? Unfortunately they did not post it as a freebie on their website. It provides a review of the...
Here are some flies I've been working on for the AR.? The first is actually Brian's first poopah and the same one that won him his new year's resolution to catch a fish on a fly he tied, congrats bro!? We used some EP fiber to create a shimmering veil around the body and some olive krystal flash for the anten...
I went and saw the Angling Exploration Group's Film Tour last night in San Francisco and really enjoyed it. For those of you who don't know much about these guys you should go check out their site: https://www.flyfishingfilmtour.com Lot's of great fly fishing footage and gorgeous fish from all acro...
sorry they have taken so long, i know its only been a month, figured id get them and post them asap, here you go. thought i had more pics of the putah fish, but i took a lot of the AR steelhead i have been catch. you can check those out in my 2/6 AR post. here are the pics of the putah fish and pig. i am supposed to ha...
I floated it last weekend, it was not as bad as the reports have indicated. The signs are big, the flow looks like it wants to take you to the right but don't over row like I did or the pulled-in oar will still catch on the back pier and make you knuckleslap the front person in the back of the head. Good thing he...
I was fishing the creek a few weeks ago and I think I saw a large cat between the road and the creek around mile marker 1.8.? Has anyone ever seen a mountain lion in the area?? I attempted to scoot after it but then my senses took hold and I made a beeline to another area.? Granted my view was obscured by brush b...