All: I wanted to alert you to a volunteer opportunity just provided by CDFW coming up Tuesday September 13. This is an electro-fishing survey of the side channels of our habitat restoration project, looking for Young of the Year trout. These surveys are popular and fill up quickly. Below is a link t...
My pal from the down the street, Mike Swaney, aka "Bernard" is seriously guiding again. if you're interested in catching stripers and trout in the same trip or just stripers, you should hire him to float the river. Mike's been fishing the Stanny for like 30 years and is acquainted with each striper o...
The first photo is a fish landed on the first cast. Really just a set up cast that I let drift out and Bam! A few casts later was a smaller fish about 17". The BWOs were popping. S and M nymphs. Before the S and M this time of year the best fly was a size 20 micro may. The micro may takes a lot longer to tie, so...
Can any one tell me a good spot to park and start walking. My dad in good shape but on the bigger side is there any where that I take take him and still cover water I know those places get hit hard not expecting. The best day just like to get him on a few fish.
apparently there was a car shot up . One of the locals here in napa had his car shot up this weekend . Today as I was driving into the whole foods parking lot I was flaged down by a friend having lunch whit the guy whos car was shot up and told me the story, Yes he called the police from what I got it was a brand new c...
All: the annual clean up day for the interdam reach is Saturday September 17, 9:00 AM to 12 Noon. We need at least 20 volunteers to cover the Yolo side of the creek from Access #5 to Monticello Dam. Sign ups are at the link below. Bags, buckets, vinyl gloves provided. Bring your water bottle; refills prov...
this spring while fishing the creek Ive noticed a dramatic lack of aquatic insects on the creek. There have been days that I have seen no adult mayflies, caddis,yellow sallies . And the other day didn't even see the ever present midge. Yesterday evening I only saw 2 bwo mayflies and 1 caddis. This reall...
All: a kayak was lost in the Interdam Reach over the weekend. Don't know why, but if you find/recover please call Sabine (pronounced Sabeena) 707-363-9233 Thanks.
Anyone out there have one they are willing to part with? I just missed out on one on Kiene's board and it's eating me up. Would be interested in another brand/model if the deal is right. I really just want to see whait trouble I can get into with my wife when I bring home another rod....
Sparrow, swung pulses. Big flash, rainbow kype-jawed. Oh, what a monster! Yesterday I fished the Yuba River with no expectations, just really going to field test this new bamboo quad spey rod that I've been making over the past few months, to this date I revised the mid and tip section three tim...
Thinking on making my first trip this saturday and I'm wondering do I need waders to fish pUtah creek,I'm also wondering will it be busy up there and any othe info/help would be great,im pretty good at casting flies but not so good at picking the Right flies and methods of fishing. Any help would be great...
Hey my names erich.I'm going to be at parking lot 5 tomorrow around 5:30. Might go to three later depending on how the bit is in the lower holes. If anyone going to be out and needs a fishing partner For the day.
A few days ago I was notified that Cabelas was selling the Redington Vapen fly rod for 1/2 price. I generally steer away from Redington based on my experience with their CPX line, however, on a trip to Pyramid Lake this year I met a gentleman from SoCal who was using a Vapen 7wt. I liked the non-cork, go...
Hi I took a friend fishing and he said he lost his pipe/pouch , Location would be lower parking lot at the bridge , Please call me if found Thanks Richard Loft 707 294-4738
I've got a Loop Evotec 4six model. (lines 4-6) i just got it back from the warranty service with a brand new drag. Reel is in used condition but works perfectly Comes with original box and reel case. Currently configured for left hand retrieve this reel retailed NEW for $354.00 $100 Located in Ple...
Going up to the Truckee tomorrow with a buddy. Haven't fished it this year at all. I usually fish nymphs during the day and little yellow sallies in the evening. I like fishing with a large nymph (stonefly of some type) and a smaller dropper (copper john, hares ear, etc.) I've had some success with m...
Hi To introduce myself, I come from france to work in the bay area for 5 years. I took naturally all my stuff to fly fish in California. Unfortunately, I'm lost and didn't find yet some good spot around my home. I live in Lafayette ( near walnut creek ). I tried Putah creek a few weeks ago down to berryessa la...
Hey guys left my net hung up some where around parking lot five or island and help would be awsome it's just anot old wood one but it was my pops i would love to get it back.
Found this website today while looking for some new nymphs to tie. It doesn't give you a recipe, but it has great color plates that you can click on to increase the size. On the left corner are other patterns you can click on to bring up a new category of flies. http://catchflyfish.com/midge-pattern...
