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shon42073


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I lost a white scientific anglers fly box today somewhere above the bridge right around were the dry creek bed enters putah, It's full of mostly midges. So if anyone happens to find it, Would nice of you to return it. The fishing was pretty slow today, Just some planters landed, Alot of fish hooked and lost, But I'm sure most were planters. But atleast i was fishin !

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did you happen to use any woolly buggers, and are the fish as packed as they was that one day. ill be there on tuesday with my old boss and a fellow worker, gonna try to get them on some fish. ill probably try that same spot, them on woollys and me workin the drop off right there at the creek bed. we shall see how it goes. man you and me have no luck with fly boxes. so to hear about that. i think we both need to start tying our own. hope you find it bro. i think mine is lost or stolen for ever

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Yesterday there were still quit a few planters but not like last week. I only tryed a wooly bugger for a short time. As far as the box goes I hope someone finds it, I now have absolutly no midges.

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how did the wooly bugger work. just talked to eric, guess you guys caught a few. well ill be there on tues hope it aint to busy. i think i might try the same spot that i was last week in the water, try to work that deeper water below that run, and also right above it. but who knows. got to get my boss and my sales guy on some fish. ill have them using one of my fly rods and a spinning reel. they can fight over who uses what first

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Sorry to hear about your fly box Cap!  Will be on the look out.

I fished down stream from the bridge friday.  Funny you'd mention "wooley's" Brian!  I hit a couple 10" planters early on small midge patterns.  Then it got real slow.

I was getting frustrated.  Found some deep pocket water. Through polarized lenses I could see a heavy concentration of good sized, unidentifiable fish.  I couldn't get them to hit a thing. 

I went deep, I went dry.  Got some fun play on #20 cripple cdc and and a small bwo fished dry.  I got sooooo frustrated...  I was seeing some unbelievable AGGRESSIVE behavior in this pool!

Fish chasing each other, once in a while they'd take it to the air!  But it didn't seem to translate to feeding.  I did see some belly flashes that I read as feeding.  But the action on my flies didn't match the show I was seeing.

I suspect this may having been mating prelims... I don't know.

But, I went to the bench and said what the heck...I tied on a wooley and a heavy split shot. Never fished one before (this was first time).  I kind of figured it looked like one of those stickle backs...so I thru it into the current and kind of held it there at first.  Then just tried to ease it back and forth in and out of the seams.  I tried to pull it forward then drifted it way back into this pool...when 13" stocker hammered it! fun.

All day I had a hard time getting one fly to get me more than two hook ups.  But the "wooley" got me two MORE insane hits ... I like the expression you guys use, "un-buttoned".  That's what happend.  Two fish, each around 12", hit that big ol bug and got air born and was gone! One of em did about a 10' pass on top of the water in front of me, "crazy fish"!  I'll use wooley's again ... I'm having a hard time getting over my low hook to hand ratio.

That was my Friday.

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what color was you using, black or olive or brown

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...brown...with a lot of tan ... read on another thread, that olive wooley have been working.

Didn't you post a good session resently on an olive wooley?

Ed.

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ya but black with sparkles

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I fished an olive wooley bugger directly under the bridge and in the big pool just downstream from there on saturday morning... although I did have one fish follow it up it just wasn't working for me. The one fish I caught that morning nailed a zebra midge. Which begs the question, was the wooley bugger I was using too big? It was a #16 I think.

On a completely different note I asked everyone that I bumped into if they participated on this board. Nada. I was hoping to run into at least one of you guys. Thanks for all the great info in those past posts, without it I probably would have been completely skunked.

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I fished the bridge on saturday morning also... You probably saw me, I was the young guy with a khaki fishing vest over a gray sweater.

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hey eric ill be there tomorrow

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I did see you LilWhippersnapper, how did you end up doing on saturday morning?


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saturday morning was good, but once the sun came out they wouldn't hit. I only got like 4 or 5 the rest of the day.

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Sounds like you did much better than me... I only got one fish all morning. I still have tons to learn. Every minute on a river seems to help though. Were you fishing wooly buggers too?

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i will be tryin a #16 or 18 griffith gnat with a #22 or 20 zebra midge dropper in the am, and gonna have my boss using a wooly bugger and will see how the fish react to those. if one is doing better than the other then i or he will change to that.

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sounds like a good plan brian, good luck tomorrow!
what size wooly buggers do you usually use?

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any where from 6-10

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cool. have you ever tried a soft hackle wet fly with any success?

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nope never

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I owe you guys an apology ... it wasn't a woolley at all that made em crazy on Friday.  It was a tan/brown muddler.  Big one, too...probably 1/0.

No bead head. 

At least I didnt call it a doohingus or a flim flam.

My bad,

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Hey Emerger, I was doing really good on a parachute adams with a zebra copper john... I don't know if it's called a zebra copper john, but it had silver tinsel around the body.

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a muddler minnow huh, was you using weight to get it down, or using it as a dry fly, i actually have one that is about an inch long or so. how did you work it.

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Hey LilWhippersnapper--how far off the bend of the hook do you usually keep your dropper fly? I fish it about 2 feet off my dry, is that about the right length?

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If some of you plan to try a woolly bugger, I have been having excellent results with an olive crystal flash bugger in size 12.  I started using this fly a couple of years ago after reading an article which described how successful this could be on the McCloud.  So I figured it might work on Putah as well.  At that time I never saw anyone else using a streamer, but now it seems to be getting more common.  My buddy and I also caught a lot of fish on the Upper Sac two weeks ago on this fly.

With the low flows lately, I have switched from my usual beadhead on a sinktip line to a non-bead on a floating line.  Otherwise I just get stuck on the bottom.  In the summer with higher flows the sinktip/beadhead combination works very well.

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Emerger, it depends on how deep I'm fishing. Where I was fishing, I had it about 2 to 3 feet from the dry fly, and I was fishing in about 3 feet of water. If I'm using two nymphs under an indicator, I put the dropper about 1 to 2 feet from my first fly.

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Emerger, You must experiment, Keep changing lengths of your dropper.

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Thanks guys!

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I found a fly box on Putah this past Friday that appears to match this description. I just about cried when I opened it thinking how sad I would be if I lost mine.....

Email me if you think its yours.

c_berardi@sbcglobal.net

-Chirs

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thats got to be captains ill pm him as well. just wondering if you did too. he is going to flip. hey i am still missing my black cased fly box as well, has thesame thing, midges and nymphs.

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Right on, cooter.  I hope it's yours, captain. 

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