Has anyone fished the hamilton branch out of almanor recently? Headed up there this weekend, will post a report when I get back, but was just seeing if anyone has had any recent experience
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fished hamilton branch, butt creek, butt creek resevoir inlet, yellow creek, and deer creek over the weekend. All in all good fishing, between two of us caught to many fish to count, mostly small under 10, but a few over 13. Actually was sight fishing to an absolute brute. Was walking along one of the creeks when we spotted a 10 pound plus bow, wasnt really feeding, we figured it was a planter as it was WAY to big for the creek, possiby brood stock, deffinately was a bow though. Pretty much any fly was working, but pheasant tails, bird nests and rubber legged brassies (green, and black) seemed to work the best, from size 14-18. As for dries yellow stiumulators, Adams, etc, pretty much anything. About half of the fish were on dries. All in all a good trip with plenty of nice scenery, amazing hatches, and great fishing. Deer creek seemed to produce the best with the biggest fish while yellow creek produced the least, didnt make it back to the wild trout section though, was mainly walking the medow sight fishing. Sorry, no pics, as we were walking through creeks all day i didnt think it was wise to walk around with the digital, good choice as I fell in a couple times, need to look into getting a watterproof camera.
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all of a man's addictions end and begin when he learns to fly fish