Hi All,
Had a great day (late afternoon) on P.C. After a lame start, sorry Keith, I ended up in Ukiah. Let this be a lesson to you all, never have serious business discussions on the cell phone while you are also looking for road exits to get to your fly fishing grounds.
Anyway lunch in Ukiah was pl...
My work and ministry opportunities may be taking me to So Cal. Near San Diego/Temecula. One of the factors I need to consider is the fishing in the area Is there anyone from down there or have traveled there to fish? I am going to Kienes today to buy a...
I'm heading up to the creek Sunday morning. If anybody sees a nut with a camo boonie hat driving a lifted white Jeep give me a holler. At lest if the fish arn't biting I can play on the rocks :)
Well, I fished the high flows about 4 times since the first storms, and up to this point each trip has been dismal at best, skunked each time. If you've never seen a river otter in the "wild" before, you have an almost 100% chance of seeing one above the bridge, first time I've ever seen any so for me i...
I have been fishing the American, and was catching half pounders until they decided to bump up the flows to 8,000 cfs, so I decided to give Putah a try. I figured fish it like a big river. I used a 90 degree leader setup and a lot of weight. To my surprise I hooked a fish on about my fourth c...
Myself and a couple of buddies fished the Lower Sac in Redding last Friday,we launched out at the possie grounds and drifted down to Sac RV.The fishing was decent but not on fire.I think we boated probably 10 or so fish, a few of those were nice size.There were really no hot bugs for the day, a mixture of pr...
Is the creek rising again, or is the usgs website wrong? I havnt been out for a few weeks, but the creek was huge last I saw it, is it still that size? Anyone fished recently? IS anything going on at the creek? Just wondering.
hey gang
just wondering if anyone has been to the creek lately?
or you guys got jobs
no trout bums in here
water does seem to be coming down ,but slowly well guess ill have to wait till someone post a report,me I work all the time and live vicariously thru other flyfishers
yeah right (...
Me and clayton hit up the creek today and I finaly got to see how much he has improved since the first time we went fishing together. We got there around 8 and fished right below the bridge but no luck. So we moved above the bridge and Finaly around 1 clayton hooked into one that was around 16".
We then move...
I was just wondering when the browns come back down into solano or if there already in there. Also what flies work best and what type of line we should use. Intermediate, shooting head, etc. Thanks for any advice
- Mike
Went out this evening, tried around the island, and up stream a bit, and didnt catch anything. Saw some small caddis flys and BWOs coming up, but not in numbers, and no risers . Anyone else out this weekend?
Me and my buddy mike fished up by cold creek today did fair with one fish by mike on a size 16 PT the fish was about 17" but it wiggled off on the surface . Thats about all the action we saw all day. I took some pictures of the creek but i can't figure out how to post them. -- Edited by Cl...
I had a couple of hours between classes, so I headed up to the creek to check out the flows today. The creek has dropped quite a bit but is still high. With the receeding water you can see the drastic change that the high water has had on the appearance of the creek. Some areas are totally diffe...
Hi, I fished Putah during the late 60's and early 70's. The fly fishing bug has hit me again. As a newbie, could you suggest 3 fly patterns and sizes to start my collection?
Thanks, Dennis
Ive been watchin stream flows online, it looks like it wont be too long until it is fishable? needs to drop about 2000fps, but it is droping about 700-800 a day for the past couple days. Anyone been out lately to see how it looks?
Well, I headed out this morning for a couple of hours. The good news is there were no crowds and I didn't drown. The bad news is that the water is still fast and off color and I didn't catch any fish.
There was one man and his son and nephew out by the bridge at 8 am when I arrived, but they only st...
Headed out today, fished 4 and 5, had one thing that might have been a hit, hard to tell, other than that, nothing but mud and one decent sized branch. Havnt really figured out a good tactic for the putah at high water, somehow water that quick and deep, with no boat throws me of...
I'm going to go stand on the flooded banks of Putah and drowned a few nyphms tomorrow, any takers. I just gotta go. Have I lost my mind? Am I pushing it? I know I should have someone go with me...So???? Anyone?
PM me if you are interested
Keith
I went up to the Stanislaus River today to take a couple of guys out who have never fly fished before. The river is SUPER HIGH! It is flowing clear, though. In the past this river has been one of the first to clear out and become fishable. We did manage to find a side channe...
I fished the creek today with KHB. The flows are still HIGH. Most of the creek is inaccessible, but there are a few fishable spots. We fished from the mouth of the little creek (across from the resort) upstream towards the dam. I landed two fish, one 16" a...
I notice that many posts enumerate the number of wild vs stocked fish caught in a particular outing, and I am interested in learning how one can confidently distinguish between the two. It isn't difficult if the fish is quite large or quite small. but those mid-range ones are a challenge. ...
I am new to the area. I just moved down from Rexburg, ID were I fished once a week on Henry's Fork. I am looking for some good trout fishing and it seems like the putah is the best around. So I am looing for some of the veteran putah fishers favorite flys to use on the creek so I can tie a few up before I go.
Thank...
On occasion my father told me that when the weather gets like this and the dam is spewing water from the culvert, large schools of shad get caught in the the vortex and hit the creek above the bridge, if you are a shad guy, it might be worth heading up above the bridge with some shad gear, and poke a few of thos...
Anyone want to throw some dates around when you think we may be able to get out there and fish? I saw it flowing @ 7000cfs + this morning, and coming down ever so slightly, sure would like to get up there again. Having not fished the creek previously to this year for a bout 20yrs,&nbs...
I went up to Putah today just to see how bad it was, and yes, it looks bad. I happened to follow Bono as he checked out some of the areas, so he will probably have a detailed report later.
I did post some pictures on Kiene's message board, so those of you too far away to get to the creek can check...
To Greg or any other creek expert. What can we expect from the creek after so
much rain and high flows? Will we have to wait for awhile to let the creek settle
and let the flows go down? How long might that take? I'm new to the creek and I
don't know it real well. Is it just a few day's or longer? Any commen...
Fished the creek yesterday with my 11 year old son Nicholas and my infamous web designer Kieth,and was pleasantly surprised by the water clarity,at least up near the resort and down stream about 1/2 mi.We caught fish,not huge numbers but enough to keep us enthused.Sizes ranging from 12" to 15"avera...
I fished the creek on thrusday in-between the rain storms, the water had pretty good color till just below the bridge then turned into a mud puddle, I coudn't fish with confidence in the dirty water so I joined the crowd fishing the water around the bridge. A few guys were catching s...
I just noticed that the flows had increased substantially this morning from 75 to 154 CFS. Is this an indication that water is being released from the dam (e.g. the glory hole has overflowed)?
My brother and I were considering a trip out to tomorrow afternoon, but I am worried that it might be b...
Is there anyone from down there or have traveled there to fish? I am going to Kienes today to buy a...
. Anyone else out this weekend? 