I started fishing the creek when I was 12 years old.  That would have been about 1991.  I used spinning rods back then, though.  I didn't start fly fishing the creek until I was 17 (1996). 

-- Edited by JT at 23:39, 2008-01-11

I have been fishing Putah for over 20 years.  Like most everyone else, I fished it during the Winter and only on weekends.  Nine years ago due to a medical problem I took early retirement from my job.  Since then I have been fishing Putah all year round.  Winter fishing is a lot more productive than Summer, but I still do fish it during the Summer.  During the early 90's to the late 90's, for me, the fishing was really tough.  I can remember being elated over catching a 13 inch fish.  I don't know if the stream got better in the late 90's or I just got more knowledgeable of the stream, but since I retired, my success has greatly exceeded my expectations. 

Gee, I'm really getting to be an old fart.  I may have fished Putah once in high school with a friend and his brother.  That was about 1964.  We didn't do anything.  I returned in 1978 with another friend.  He used to fish Putah with night crawlers after the first rain in the fall.  The following year we found out that each of us liked fly fishing so we started going to Putah regularly from August until the water started to be released in the winter.  During the 80's we felt like we owned the river.  We had a lot of success catching huge trout when the water first dropped around the beginning of October, and we had many days when each of us caught 50 or more fish.  One of the oddest experiences I had was when we were up right after there had been a huge release of water because of storms.  We fished for 30 minutes or so without luck until we noticed that four or five feet above our heads were dead carp and other fish that had been killed during the high water and were left literally in the tree branches when the flow was cut.  They were in various stages of decaying with maggots falling off them into the water.  We cut the legs and wings off some white and cream dry flies and had a great day.  We introduced another half dozen friends to the creek, but it started to go into decline when the trailer park built up.  The spin fisherment started cutting down trees and branches along the stretches I liked with saws.  This limited the cover and I stopped catching as many fish.  By the late 90's I stoppped going up as often, fishing the Upper Sac, Pit, Hat Creek, Klamath, and Truckee Rivers instead.  It has only been in the last three years or so I've started fishing Putah again.  That's because my son has gotten into fly fishing and its still the best place to go that's close.  The creek has really changed, and holes I used to love are not as productive, but I've managed to find some new spots and have caught a few hogs, however I don't have the fifty plus fish days that I used to have.  

I've been fly fishing since summer of 06. I get out once a mounth(to the putah) if i'm lucky. i do OK. but i really like the high an' lonesome. Small creeks and lakes full of little rising trout. I could go on forever up there, up home. I also go up to the mmwd lakes( at least 2 to 3 times a month) with limited luck. I keep going though!

Ive fished it for round 3 months been there 6-7 times

I started fishing Putah in the early '70s. We used to do very well with bait, and I remember coming home with some heavy stringers of trout at times. I started flyfishing there in 1974 with a metal ferrule fiberglass Garcia rod and a Shakespear reel. I caught my first trout flyfishing on a #12 Ginger Quill and first on a nymph--some vague caddis imitation.

Its hard for me to say how the fishing has changed. The runs down near #5 have changed a lot but that is from the big blowout events that we have occasionally. One thing that has occurred without question is the number of people and flyfishers using the creek has increased by a ton.

I started fishing Putah in October 2007.

I remember lugging these huge stringers of trout down the road back to the car and having people pull over to check em out, I still feel bad about keeping all those big trout back then.

I first fished Putah in 1999 using big flys. First fish  was caught  on a #12 yellow  wolly bugger but they were few and far between. In the spring of 2000 I saw Gregs card  at the Pardesha market and hired him to show me the creek. To all of you new guys it was the best investment  I've made on the creek. I learned more in  half a day than on my own in 6 months. That year I had over 90 days on the water with half on Putah. When I told my wife I was going fishing on Putah  Creek  she once  jokingly ask  if I had  a girlfriend.

I first fished Putah back in 1989. I was living in the bay area and my wife bought me a loomis rod for my birthday, thats when I knew that the marriage would last. What a gal. Anyway I was talking to one of the guys in the fly shop in Belmont where I lived and asked him for a good place to fish he told me that I should try Putah. He was a great guy drew me a map, right down to where to fish and the flys to use. Little brown spinners. It was a little over a hour to drive. I probably hit Putah atl least twice a month untill 2000 that is when we moved to Vacaville. Now I try for once a week. I love that creek there are so many different parts to it I never get board with it. And it is a challange. God bless Putah.

Hey Bob, if you fished Putah every week like Brian does, I'm sure you would progress as fast as him.

She couldn't accept that you had 2 loves in your life?