I think I recognize that spot. Caught some small browns there 12 years ago. As you were saying tough spot to fish

I am familar with #5 and I believe there is only one little run as you describe it in that stretch. I have fished it (without success, but then I wasn't using the mystery fly). If it is one in the same, it is not in the same condition it was before "The Storm": additional trees have fallen and it has significantly silted in-there is about a 6 X 6 area now with water flowing through it. In fact, the nice riffle-pool above it has filled in significantly with cobble. Whereas everyone that fished that piece seemed to catch fish out of it before the storm, I have not had a fish out of there since nor seen any activity such as rises that indicate any fish are there.

The good news is that water clarity today is about 3' in slow water. The fishing today was 0/0, but there was at least one successful fisher-what appeared to be a Swainson's Hawk flew over head as I approached the creek carrying a 10" trout in its talons. Also, the air temperature at 12 was great. I also met Andy, the DFG trout catch surveyer who dutifully recorded my goose egg. Sounds like he will be talking to a lot of us, especially on the weekends.

Looks like a great weekend weather and water-wise is here.

Hey Packrat nice post, glad to see someone use this forum, I think, like it was meant to be used. No secret messages, a little helpful fly info and not a lot fanfare. Very refreshing, its been getting a little out there lately. If you go back in the past posts of a few years ago this is how they used to be. Just a little info to your fellow flyfishers. Thanks again.

The area on the other side of the log jam, the upstream side, always seems to hold a bunch of planters. Don't know why but I've caught a whole bunch of fish from that area with very few of them wild. There is another spot around this area that has a plunge pool that's not much bigger than a toilet bowl that always holds a very large fish. I have hooked into him several time but never got him to hand. OK, maybe 18 inches isn't considered very large but it is if it came out of a toilet bowl!

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Hey Packrat nice post, glad to see someone use this forum, I think, like it was meant to be used. No secret messages, a little helpful fly info and not a lot fanfare. Very refreshing, its been getting a little out there lately. If you go back in the past posts of a few years ago this is how they used to be. Just a little info to your fellow flyfishers. Thanks again.

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Nothing wrong with a little info. I'm a sometimes poster on another board that I won't mention. When I first joined that one you could always get info and fish reports. Now it's all about coded messages and very little talk about fishing. If you give any kind of positive report you get bashed for opening your mouth. They think if you mention good fishing the spot won't be secret any more. Come on, there really isn't any easily accessible fishing that's a secret unless you're talking about back country and even then there is so little pressure it makes no difference. Please, The Little Truckee, East Walker, Putah Creek, Middle Fork Feather...who are you kidding with secrecy? Most of the guys there use the board like it's email and forget about what the main topic should be....fly fishing!