I really shouldn't have, but I just had to. I have so much homework and studying to do right now, but I can't go that long without fishing. I shouldn't be fishing for another two weeks, when finals are over. I only lasted two weeks. Four weeks would have been entirely too long. KHB, you were right. What can I say? I'm an addict. I fished the creek for two hours this morning. You'd think with the higher flows (98 cfs) that it would be easier to get a good drift, but not with all that wind. I made a mistake and brought my 3 wt today. I had to haul just to mend the line. It was a workout, but I managed to land 9 fish, losing only 3. There were tons of midges on the water when I got to the creek about 9 AM. Not too long after I got there caddis started coming off of the water as well. At about 10:30 AM, some beefy caddis started hatching. I would guess they were about #10-12, much bigger than the #16-18 that were emerging earlier. Actually, both species continued to hatch until I left at about 11 AM. The fish didn't seem to key in on the caddis, though. They just kept on eating my #20 midge pupa. Only two of the fish took the #16 tan Fox Poopah. It was a pretty good day on the creek. I actually a caught a fish on my first cast today. That doesn't happen too often, so it's always cool. I just wish that I could have fished longer. Who knows how the bugs will be hatching later on today. I imagine there will be some decent hatches with the warmer weather.
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"Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught."
Yes, the caddis hatch below the RV park was pretty intense from 10:30 to Noon or so. They were pretty large.
I laned this one after he kept gulping emergers around my various attempts at caddis dries. He took a nice surface shot at my second dry, and bolted back down into the deep. Finally, he chomped into an 18 Adams with brown and red hackle and I was able to net him.
Water was 'round 50 degrees from 9am til I left at Noon.
-- Edited by Fishermans Friend at 17:52, 2007-03-10
-- Edited by Fishermans Friend at 17:54, 2007-03-10
I arrived on the creek around 10:30, just before JT left. For me it was a slow day. I hooked 3 and lost all 3. The last one was a hog. He took an 18 PT flashback. He was on for about 45 seconds before he broke me off.
I was out friday, didn't get any fish, I stuck to dries all day without a dropper, Theres was alot of small, Maybe size 18 light colored mayflies on the water, And alot of fish were rising. Made it back out today (sun. 11th) fished around access #1 and #2 hooked two smallish fish on #16 pheasant tails, And one bruiser that was a good 18 inches on a "putah riffle special" this guy hung me up twice, first time I got it free, second time he won. Over all a beautiful day on putah, alot of people around but not many of em fishing. Was planning to do some float tubing but was a little to breezy.
Fishermans Friend. That my friend is a beautiful fish. What colors! Awesome, makes me want to leave the office right now and go. That fish looks very healthy too, that is very encouraging. Good Luck to all.
I think a told a bunch of you. I had hand surgery three weeks ago, so I have not been able to fish, but with a little (or a lot) of encouragement from JT, I have been practicing my left handed presentation. If you see me on the creek, I'll be the guy with the cast (literally)
KHB, I can relate to your hand problem, few years ago I completely severed a nerve in my left hand and have no feeling to this day, this is the main reason it took so long for me to take up fly fishing as I find it rather time consuming to tie on tippets, and small flies, and fly tying I think is out of the question. Just takes me a little more time then your average. One thing I ment to mention on my last post, when I was fishing this past weekend I really noticed that the bites that I had were extremely sutle, just a slight dip of my indicator and I use a very small trimmed poly yarn indicator, The few people I have seen lately are using much to large of an indicator in my opinion. I also would like to thank the gentleman that was picking up trash around access 1 on sunday morning, after that I figured I should pick up a few things as well, so maybe if we all could just pickup a few things when were out there, cause we all know the beer guzzling, trash throwing, spin fishers are coming soon.
you can use a VERY small indicator, I mean the size of an egg, actually. I was turned on to this new product Levitate by the guys at American Fly in Sacramento. AWESOME stuff. Its a sort of beady material, but when you crush it, it makes a coat of air dry material over anything you put it on. Last time I was out I actually used an egg as an indicator and the Levitate made it float all day. Rediculous stuff, it can even make a beadhead nymph float. Check it out.
Thanks for the tip SFG. I am going to be at American Fly this weekend and will check out the new product. Is it actually designed as a floatant for dries, or specifically for indicators?
