Had a few hours yesterday, and the flows seemed managable for this time of year. Havn't had much luck latley at # 5, so I thought I'de give # 1 a try. Started out abouve the bridge for a change, no luck. I did however overhear the conversations of a few campers, bait guys. One old man was telling his neig...
I know we'll be eating out for dinner but I was thinking about breakfast and lunch. What do you guys who are going think of each one of us bringing up breakfast and lunch stuff and just sharing with the group? Simple pastries or bagels and OJ for breakfast and sandwich makings and snacks for lunch. We coul...
Fished putah from 3pm to 5pm today.Did a quick loop at access #5...Gone are the days when you could fish the front side of #5 and be in to double digits before you started on the back half...Back side of the split was fishing well as it almost always does.caught 2 fish on some jumbo sizes brassie looking th...
b-cup to be more specific - here's a picture of my girlfriend sans clothes after we "rode the rapids" while wading. I'm pretty beat up and so is she. A picture of Steve E. with a great fish A picture of Erica with a slightly better fish only because I hadn't crossed over to Steve while he was yard...
Hey guys, I just listened to a great podcast at: http://www.askaboutflyfishing.com The title of the show is "Fishing with Streamers for Trophy Trout". This guy uses articulated flies up to 7 inches long with the average being 4-5 inches long. It's an informative show for sure. When we we...
Forum Members: PCT is recruiting new members to join the fight for our beloved Creek. Yearly membership is $25, but for $40, you can also join us for a Day on the Yuba on private waters (the additional $15 covers expenses to set up the trip). Right now, we have at least 10 openings of the 20 members allowed...
MX 19 and myself are going to hold a half day guide trip/class on putah creek,but first we must find out who is interested and how many. The cost will be a minimum "donation" of 50.00 and all of the proceeds go to our PCT group (non profit). The class can be split up in two parts if we have a mixed ba...
just wondering if anyone has been up 50 lately or maybe near west or the east carson rivers. wondering if they are fishable right now. if not maybe ill hit up the east fork of the west fork of the south fork or the north fork of the east fork of the yuba. lol. gonna be having either a 26 yr old female newbie or a 1...
Check out the new Leland Fly Fishing Ranch located in the Sonoma Valley. There are casting ponds with "steelhead" strain trout, a 8-acre bass pond, over seventy demo rods to try, a complete pro fly shop and casting instructional programs featuring some the industry's best instructors....
Thought I'de give a report on my weekend adventure. I decided to head up the 4 corridor. I arived in Avery and started looking at my GPS. The closest access was on Candy Rock Dr. I followed it down to the end. There was a couple of cars to my suprise, which turned out to be tennage partiers. Well, it w...
It is only a month away for the Truckee run.? I am heading up for an exploratory run this weekend.? I will hit all new entertainment establishments to ensure we don't miss a new one worth visiting! I want to confirm those who had wanted to go . . . Brian Clemens, Shawn, Rich (2), Cliff, AC22, Steve, James ( i...
Did anyone catch the newest issue of California Fly Fisher? The article Good Vibes is about adding propellors and other spinning metal gizmos to flies. Does this give any other tiers the shakes? When does fly fishing become throwing lures with a fly rod? Vince
I've been busy! I just listened to a pod cast about old school wet flies and I was inspired to tie some for the upcoming Truckee bash...along with a few others. olive soft hacke, natural soft hackle, tan RS2, grey RS2, Burk bottom roller, Burk HBI, rubber leg hares ear, JT's drowned midge, natural birds...
Theres too much to list here, I have lots of blackbass gear, spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, crankbaits, Tons of soft plastics, swimbaits, topwater poppers. Also have lots of trout trolling stuff, a few flashers, dodgers, lots of various types of spoons, jointed floating rapalas wich are deadly and wor...
fished the silver fork for two days this past weekend. Water is high and a bit off color but theres enough fishable water to keep one busy. Fishing was pretty slow, Maybe a dozen or so very small guys all weekend, Nothin over 10 inches. Didn't get much fishing in on saturday as a big thunderstorm came thro...
I was working in Redding last week and decided to hit a few rivers. Went to the Upper sac after work on Thursday and got skunked. Fished a few spots around Conant and only hooked one fish. It proceeded to snap my dry fly off with no problem. Didn't see many fish rising. River is fairly high for this ti...
hey everyoneme and my cousin are planning a little get away and we want to catch some fish, but where to go?? we are going for 4 or 5 days in the middle of june. we want to go to a place where we hike in, to a river/creek/lake and catch some trout. we have all the time on our hands so driving is not a problem. We wa...
Got out to the?creek today around 1:30, thinking that not many folks would actually be fishing on Mem. day and was right about that. Started at access 5, noticing that someone had hung a snake (presumably a rattler) from the fence under the tree by the road.? It was quite decomposed, but I don't think pe...
With all these crazy flows I'm starting to go crazy.? Time to fish some smaller streams/creeks and catch some brownies.? Anyone been up there yet this year?? I can't find any flow info, wonder what they're releasing from the lake.
Hey guys Im going to Santa Rosa tomorrow and am going to check out the russian river near Forestville Ive been told theres no steelhead in the river is that accurate if there is none what about trout .or shad I could use some advice I.E flys I don,t to be throwing the wrong flys
So I tied up a few micro mayflies today, but as I was tying them up I realized that there is little differences between them and say a PT nymph.? So my question is why use one over the other??