Fished all over the creek today and did not catch a damn thing. Fished up and down, and back again and nothing.
I was thinking the water flows would help, it was good 2 weeks ago at 68 CFS, but nobody was getting anything today. One guy caught 2 on a Hare's Ear early this morning. I threw everything I had - black, olive midges, caddis larva, mayflies, bird's nest, micro mays, not even a strike! There are tons of bugs in the water, the rockworms are getting big, I'd say #14 and there's a lot of them. Lots of small light-colored mayflies, baetis, and even some little yellow stones.
Well, at least your report makes me feel better about my skunk today. I was out for a couple of hours this morning in three different locations and didn't get a single strike. After the good fishing a couple of weeks ago, I guess Putah has to put us in our place once in a while. I'll keep on trying and let you know if things pick back up.
Make that 3 of us. A beautiful day weather-wise but man was the fishing tough. Could count the number of strikes on one hand. 4 hours and zip. I agree that is it strange as the flow increase should have helped. I guess this creek doesn't want to be taken for granted! But man the weather was nice.
I woke up this morning at 4am with my car packed for putah....but couldnt get out of bed after a long week..maybe its good i hit snooze..spring just around the corner.
I should have hit snooze and slept in after a long week of work. I hit putah hard today for almost 8 hours and I didnt get a thing, I freakin threw everything i had at em, I hit every likely spot, I started at access #5, working my way upstream, ended up at the upper part of access #3, man i'm tired. The odd thing is there was pretty good insect activity all day long, looked like mostly midges(my entomology is bad).....didnt see a single rise or any fish, talked to one other guy who had the same luck, i was surprised there were very few fisherman on the creek today. I guess you could call today a good ol putah butt kickin .....
Well it looks like we all got skunked After a week or so of awesome fishing, the creek has returned to being a mystery. So many bugs, so many flies casted, so little bites.
I was the guy that caught 2 on a hares ear on Friday the 16th, ended up with 4 for the day. 3 on the hares ear and 1 on a red midge kinda thing that I tie up. Did you hit that hole I talked to you about that had a pig of a rainbow sitting right under the white water? I had that sucker on twice in about 10 minutes and he popped off both times, understandable with a size 20 barbless hook. He would have easily went 18 inches but I'm thinking he could have been even bigger, I got really good looks at him both times. Sorry Friday was tough for everyone but I did ok.
Yeah I tried for a moment, but if you hooked him twice I seriously doubt he would be eating for a while... I've caught quite a few in that spot before...
Fished up and down, and back again and nothing.
After a week or so of awesome fishing, the creek has returned to being a mystery. So many bugs, so many flies casted, so little bites.
