I know this is going to piss people off but I have to write this. I go on this site a lot and read all the reports and for the most part its very informative but I feel like if you have a great day on Putah and catch 20 fish keep it to yourself, there are so many people that view this site on a daily basis that the amo...
I want to purchase a 4 weight rod for the smaller sierra waters i plan to fish this year, i am most likely leaning towards a thomas and thomas lt. presentation lps 804-3 or an lps 764, and was wondering if anyone has experience with thomas and thomas rods and how you feel about them. I'd really like to hear f...
I have never tied flys before (I want to start)?and was wondering how those of you that do tie learned the art. Father, class, friends, ect. for example. I want to start, but I dont really want to attend a class with a bunch of beginners unless that is the way to go. Does anybody get together and tie or anyth...
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Fished the Gualala River today with great success. The Water is that perfect emerald green and dropping fast. Started the day at "donkey hole", not 15 cast and I was hooked up, after 2 mins or so and still no sight of the fish, only the scream of a Hardy hinting that it may be larg...
Has anyone fished this lately? for Steel Head? Was looking for information on where, how, with what and if any?spectacular guides. My recomendation right now would be the Feather. I fished?right?down town Oriville?on Saturday and had a blast. We landed two sucker fish and I had two amazing battles...
Got out to the Creek for the first time this Winter. Fish the AM and had the creek to myself. I've forgotten what a good time of the year it is. Being able to wade in areas that are to deep in the Summer is fun. AM temps in the 40's-50's, little breeze and bright sunshine. Fished above and below the bridge and d...
Just out of curiosity... Does anybody have a "life time" liscense? I was thinking about putting down the $600 or so (Im 25 so thats the?prorated price) because they just go up and up and up. At this rate they will be $50-60 in the not too distant future. And another thing is how much better of a s...
I have recently moved to Dixon from Vallejo because of school.? It's nice, because I can fish the creek more during the school quarter.? My wife and brother-in-law are new to flyfishing and don't really like to fish Putah Creek yet.? They prefer the constant action of bluegill and crappie fi...
Three weeks ago I fished below the bridge and caught four nice fish, 14, 16, 17 and 21 inches in a couple of hours. On?18-20 zebra midges, 18-20 micro mayflies and a 14 PT. There were a lot of large fish swimming around and activity was high and other anglers were catching fish.?Yesterday I went back and i...
Im going Ducking hunting in Willows this Saturday and was looking for a river to fish for Sunday.? I have to be in West Sac on Sunday afternoon. I can't seem to find a decent or recent fishing report. The lower Yuba sounds like the flows are too high, the feather is just a nasty river and the American so...
I fished the creek on Saturday, the 20th.? I got there about noon and fished until about 4 pm.? There was a nice Baetis hatch, and the fish were rising all over the place.? I used a small mayfly, an egg, and a midge pupa.? At one point,?I even tried a caddis?pupa.? I hooked about 20 fish but only managed to la...
Fished the Trinity river for steelies the past few days and man was it coooooold!We averaged about 4 fish per day and lost a few as well,mostly on size #12 golden stones,pheasant tails and one fish on my version of a red serendipity all with a bead head.The fish were all in the deeper runs with very few exe...
While guiding last Monday I encountered two individuals with spinning rigs with trebel hooks,I politeley told them that it is illegal.They in turn politeley told me that it was not because the regs state the use of barbless artificial lures is okay and says nothing about single hook or treble hook.S...
I fished the creek this morning with KHB. The day started out nice with no clouds in site, but it was freezing cold. The cold didn't bother me too much, though, because I was wearing LOTS of clothes. Anyway, the fishing was good. I hooked five and landed four--a 10"er,...
Today i fished putah all day and didnt get anything, tried pretty much everything in the flybox. But i did see something i found very odd, this happened at least 6 different occasions today, there were very large trout 25 to 30 inches possibly larger that would out of know were just explode, tailwalk, p...
I've been experimenting with glass beads in my patterns for quite a while now. They can be used for beadhead nymphs, in the thorax, or in the abdomen of different patterns. If anyone is interested in tying with these beads, there is a shop in Fairfield called "Bead Time" that sells them.&...
Fished putah behind the campground store. Picked up the bigest trout I have aver had on a fly rod. Big I dont even know what a fish like this weighs. I would have to say over 5lbs easy. The fish was relly showing some color and had smoe serrious girth. Had him on for about 15 min and as I wa...
Has anybody fished the cottonwood lakes (1-5) for Golden Trout? I was thinking about going for the golden with a friend this summer and that area looks pretty cool. If so, just curious on peoples thoughts about it. -- Edited by MotoGP at 18:42, 2007-01-05
Damn,
I added about 30K miles on the old SUV last year in search of good trout waters. From Mt.Whitneys Cottonwood Lakes to the Upper Sac and back. There wasn't a side water, riffle, or pond I didn't hit...hard.
I am happy to report that ol' Putah has them all beat and my CPF (cost per fish) has gon...
I have seen quite few people standing in or walking across spawning beds in the past couple of weeks. When I've informed them what they were doing, most people have moved off of them with no problems. A couple of people are prideful and try to argue. I don't think they l...
Here are some pics from Almanor. I had a great time but only got to break out my fly rod for one day; I found out that there is a stream still open to fishing (thanks to my 06/07 reg book) on the other side of the lake, but for the most part it was my spinner. It was worth it though, the fish were huge...
fished putah creek on 12/30 for the second time(i think access 4). Didn't catch any thing, but saw alot of fish.A 4lber got about 5 feet of air trying to eat something. Saw some trout that looked awfully beat up, with big white spots on them, almost salmon looking. What are the spots from?
Hi folks, I've been enjoying my role as the "uncle that takes the kids fishing" and as the kids are getting a little bit older (8-10) I think it's about time to take them on a camping trip some where. Right now they're still bait fishing but it's pretty reasonable to expect these guys...
My father and I started fishing by the lower camp ground, below the bridge, around 9:00am. A river otter started cruising the area and eating crayfish on the rocks....and scaring fish.
While the otter was munching away, a small bob cat jumped out of the woods to take the food away from the otte...
I fished the creek on Tuesday. It was a really nice day with crowds at a minimum. There was a decent hatch of BWOs in the early afternoon. It was neat to see some of the monster fish actually rise to these tiny insects. I hooked some really nice fish but none in the net.&nb...
Decided to pickup a sink tip line today and was wondering if theres anything i should expect as i have never tried this before, i plan on swinging some larger flies such as wooly buggers and maybe some steelhead flies. I do find that when i am fishing deep with shot on a floating line i tend to have some trou...
Took a canoe trip with my two boys down a stretch of creek from Diversion dam downstream to the town of Winters.The float takes about 3 hours if you dont stop and fish much,and is really something special.We saw lots of wildlife including a whole bunch of Mountain lion tracks.I did fish a little and land...
