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I took my wife up to central Oregon last summer for her first "real" fishing trip. She is hooked! She landed a 6lb Brook from Hosmer Lake, a hog bow from craine prairie and over 100 dinks on the upper deschutes. I have fished Putah a few times but not too much success. is there any spots where she wont have...

Speaking of browns, on Friday 6/16 I went out in the afternoon when it was 104 degrees, at about 3pm. I hooked into a monster brown! I had the sucker on for about 20 minutes and just couldn't land him. He didnt start to come to the surface tell the end, and I say he cause when he came to the surface he h...

I've noticed that there are quite a few waterboatmen and backswimmers in Lake Solano and the slower areas on the creek. Does anyone know of any good patterns to imitate them? I'm sure the fish would tear 'em up.

I see where a lot of folks view this site, but how come no one has anything to discuss or share ? Is it because we either fish Putah Creek or one of the local lakes/resevoirs and there really isn't much to talk about ? I realize a lot of good trout fishing can be had up north and that we all are limited in terms...

fished last friday landed 4 lost 7, dont know why I lost so many fish just one of those days. Second time fishing the creek. Hooked 3 very nice nice fish. Had two fish come up and hit my indicator so decided to throw on an egg patern same color as my indicator(bright orange) immediately hooked 3 fish lost...

I fished the creek today for a couple of hours. I don't think that I have ever had such a bad landed/hooked ratio. I hooked 8 fish but only landed 2: one a little hatchery fish, the other a 14 inch football. I thought the one was a lot bigger because of how fat he was. ...

I was up at Putah for the first time a little while back and ran into a couple of fly fishermen who told me I couldn't fish from the bridge to the dam, that only members of the resort can fish that stretch. So I turned around and ran into another guy who told me I couldn't fish downstream from the bridge...

I am a beginnig fly fisherman and have learned a lot from reading all of the posts from everyone at this website. As a new father I don't get to go out as often as I would like, and when I am not working on weekends I have been visiting my in-laws in Nevada City. Any information I could get about this area would...

Fished below the bridge early, with the flows where they are a lot of weight is needed to get the bugs in the feeding lanes. Landed two nice fish both 18"-20" (putah footballs) and failed to land a few others. Usual suspects...micro mayflies , pts, and hairs ears. Outnumbered by spin fisherman 5...

Has anyone fished the Middle Fork of Stony Creek north of Clear Lake? I was reading about it on the DFG website and was wondering if it is worth a trip. Phil

hello, I have just started fishing putah and dont know much about the creek. ( only caught a couple of small bows) I have only ever fished by the bridge and the damn, are these spots too heavily fished, (poached trout)? i guess what i am trying to get at is, are the down stream accesses better in te...

This weekend myself my son and 6 other friends booked a few days at a wonderful private flyfishing lodge in NW Calif about a 45 min drive from Weed on hwy 3 near Callahan.The area really reminds me of SW Montana with broad open valleys surrounded by beautiful alpine mountains,and just like Mont and Idah...

I see that something has changed on the flow link. It no longer has the historical data and covers an entire year instead of 31 days. Is there any chance we can get back the original link? Phil

Hey Everyone, I am heading to the creek tomorrow and I was wondering what flies I should bring. I always take some midges along, but I was wondering if anyone could recommend any other flies that I can tie up before I go. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Matt

fished 9 hours and got 8 fish 6 planters and 2 wild, one wild was 12 inches other was 16 inches. not great results but after all catching fish is just a bonus. flows are high but not unfishable, gotta concentrate on small areas at a time and be pateint. I found the resort area right below monticello damn ver...

I have fished Putah Creek a number of times. Usually I have used bait however I am also a flyfisherman. I find the waters to be challenging..usually strong flows around the nice rocky areas and some really deep stretches which make wading impossible. I've fished...

First trip to the creek this year, there were lots of people but everyone got along fine. I took two friends that had never fly fished before one would not listen to advice and got skunked the other guy paid attention and and got his first fish on a fly rod,...

I know it's been over a week, but I fished below the bridge on the evening of May 19th after my last final exam. The final went well and the fishing was okay. It rained the whole time I was there so I wasn't fighting any crowds. I caught two fish, one hatchery and one native. It was...

If anyone lost a trout net (about 16 inches long, shallow dip-net) on Putah, I found one stuck behind a tree right above Lake Salono today. PM me if you lost it, and think it might be yours. Fishing was a little different today, caught 5, missed 3, but they were far between.

Got out for a few hours on Tuesday. Hooked two nice fish in the riffle below access #5 on a small black zebra midge. Landed one. Got one more near the split, but was a dink. Like Yukon Mike - I spent a LOT of time getting the moss off my rig. JL

Can you wade across the creek to the island (right above Salono) yet? Anyone been having much luck? I cant take this anymore, gonna go hit it up this weekend.

I walked this stream about a month ago and watched a kid catch a salmon 20 to 25 lbs. Its to bad the stream looked like abolsute sh*t. He released it immediately upon landing it. Its unfortunate that young anglers only have poorly keeped creeks like this to fish in . Maybe one day the State wi...

Hey guys, We had a discussion regarding Cache Creek a while back. I will be out of school in a few days and would normally head to the Sierras, but the flows make that difficult. I was wondering if anyone had been to the upper Cache Creek lately and knows how the flows are there? Or an...

i was curious if anyone has ever had good luck fishing below the solano lake diversion dam. i caught one 12 inch planter down there the other day, i only tried for about 20 mins at the end of my day. someone told me years ago that there were some big browns down there, could this be true? i have had some really...

Hello all, I am new to this forum and wanted to inquire about the angels camp area. any good streams hosting brookies/brownies in those parts??? Will flow/clarity be a problem in mid June??? I have recently moved from Flagstaff arizona back to the bay, so if anyone needs some good info. for a f...

I know that most of us have other diversions besides flyfishing. Some take a backseat and others don't. I used to fish on average around 75 days a year. No where near that anymore but I have another hobby to blame as well. My dad used to own an old '61 International Scout. That was my "pop can I borrow th...

I went over to access 5 this morning after seeing that the flows had supposedly dropped to 772 cfs overnight. After having my van broken into in February at the same access, I parked on the highway in plain sight, hoping that it would deter thieves. Unfortunately, that was not the case.&n...

We all read about the unfortunate happenings on the creek, and we should be more aware of where we park, and what we leave in our vehicles. Thanks Doc for info!!! With that said...How's da fishin..? Anyone fishing out there. I fished up by the resort last weekend and hooked up w...

hello i`m new a stream fishing and fishing it`s my second year fishing and a friend of mine told me about putah creek i went on opening day and man it was crazy. i hope some one can give me tips on fishing the creek and where to go i tried near the first bridge. well any help well do more than i have no...

I checked the flows this morning, they were at 64 cpf!

Is this a typo on the website, or did the creek just drop 5 ft? Can anyone confirm this? That is really weird.