Found some fish... lots of little ones

JL · Senior Member

Found some fish... lots of little ones

Neli · Member

Hey thats my favorite�spot!� One of your pics gave it away.� Flows must have come way down for you to make it there.� I fished the other side on Tuesday and came real close to a free ride.
Great to see the pictures of the little guys.� I get just as excited with the ones that can fit in the palm of your hand.� After having a rough early spring, its nice for me�to see that the fish have not gone away.� Great pics.

JL · Senior Member

flows were down to 275!� From 600 a week ago.

Thought I kept the location out of the pics.� All little ones in that spot (up to 16 inches maybe).

Big ones are in other water.

I was also glad to see some fish.

JL

mx19 · Senior Member

JL's favorite spot......when are you going to show me this hot spot....

�� mx19

vince · Senior Member

Wow JL, nice! That must be a good spot. I got really skunked yesterday near the bridge. That photo does look familiar... hmmm.

What size Poopah? The caddis larva I see during sampling are tiny compared to my size 16 Fox Poopah.
Vince

JMO32 · Senior Member

Good job JL.� I don't think I would have even noticed the take on some of those smaller fish.� I always wonder how many smaller fish I might miss because of some of the larger indicators I use.

JL · Senior Member

JMO - that goes to a couple finer points of indicator nymphing.

1.� Tight line when possible
2.� When indicator nymphing, any HESITATION or move sideways or anything not natural can be a take.

A lot of times, the little fish hit super aggressively, and the take is obvious. Sometimes it's a take right when the indicator hits the water so you have to watch like a hawk.

Sometimes, you just have to feel it and set the hook proactively... if you're in good water, you just may be getting a bite, esp. if the action is hot.

MX - you know I won't give up my secret spot.� I might as well let you borrow my magic blue shirt, which JT got to see in person the other day.

JL

JL · Senior Member

There were some LYS and caddis hatching, but the poopa was by no means the hot fly.� Hot fly was a tiny gray wd 40.

Second was the tiny green micro may

Third (distant third) was the poopa.

It was rust orange and about size 14.

JL

SK60 · Senior Member

JL-I hope you completed a survey form; it will raise the average catch reported from 0.01 to over 5 biggrin

mx19 · Senior Member

Come on JL...You said your were going to show me your super secret hot spot and let me wear your lucky blue shirt.....Are you still mad that we got the van stuck....
� mx19

JL · Senior Member

MX - i'm not mad about the van, just about the fact that you fooled me into thinking you knew what you were doing driving out onto the scree.� Without that meth addicted vagabond and his jalopy 4x4, we would have been snake food.

JL

But, nice guy that I am, next time we go out, you get the blue shirt.

mx19 · Senior Member

I went back a few days later and brought that guy a few big boxes of food and some dog food....He� later came down to the river where I was fishing and hung out for a while...I gave him your Ph# and address.told he could crash at your house and play a few rounds of golf....
�� mx19

vince · Senior Member

I think these belong under the little fish thread smile

Caught them today on Olive Poopah, grey and red Wd-40s. I caught one nice 14incher, but he pulled some acrobatics right when I was getting out the camera and got away.

I love the colors of these trout!
Vince

SK60 · Senior Member

Hey Vince-could you email me the originals. I will forward to DFG as part of the wild trout story thats under construction. MX19 claimed he took a ton of small fish pictures BEFORE JL, but now claims his Mac died so he couldn't send them. I've never heard of a Mac dying before, is that possible?

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vince · Senior Member

You've got mail.

A Mac, broken? I can't believe it smile

. I can always take a look at it, in exchange for a fly or two.

Interesting tidbit: many Dell's, HP's and iMacs from around 2005 are dying now (if they haven't already) due to a bad batch of Taiwanese capacitors. Apparently, an industrial spy stole the electrolyte formula from a reputable manufacturer, but copied it down incorrectly. Millions of cheaper but bad capacitors were manufactured and placed in computers of all brands, as well as other electronics. They are all failing now... all because of a crazy case of industrial espionage!

Vince

Leicafish · Veteran Member

Hey JL and Vince,

Those pics are great. You have three age classes of fish in one post! One of the criteria for wild trout designation is showing multiple age-classes and you've done that really nicely in your post. We'll have to make sure that the DFG folks see this. Thanks!

papaoak · Veteran Member

Great posts guys. Glad to see success on the creek, I haven't been to Putah for months.

bono · Master Fly Fishing Guide

JL: I know exactly where you were,a couple of years ago I crossed that area at 420 cfs and well lets put it this way,I will NEVER EVER do that again!!!!The results were similar it seems that 90% of the fish in that area this time of year are smaller than in the Winter months.Anyway its good to see that somebody is still catching fish on Putah when things have been so slow! See you all next Monday when me and MX19 host the class on Putah.

JL · Senior Member

bono - my rattler and poison oak story was caused by me crossing at 550-600 not 420!

I'm telling you it was insane.

mx19 · Senior Member

Yes , its true.My mac took a big fat dump.I lost a lot of info and yes pics of small fish..What sucks the most are the photos and video I lost of my son.From birth to 5 months...Sk60, if you are up to the challenge and a bit of a nasty hike' I will show how to get to JL's secret spot, with out drowning .Then you can take all the pics you want...

P.S. anybody work for a data recover center that can get my info off the hard drive with out charging me the cost of the entire sage line.....

SK60 wrote:

Hey Vince-could you email me the originals. I will forward to DFG as part of the wild trout story thats under construction. MX19 claimed he took a ton of small fish pictures BEFORE JL, but now claims his Mac died so he couldn't send them. I've never heard of a Mac dying before, is that possible?�

vince · Senior Member

MX19:

PM sent.

bono · Master Fly Fishing Guide

JL first of all you ARE insane crossing at those flows!!! And MX19 you and Steve had better bring your pruning shears and poison oak repellent if your taking the "hike"!!Hope to see you all at the wine fest fundraiser. By the way had a decent day yesterday at access #5 with a couple of really great guys just learning the ropes of flyfishing from Chicago,mostly midge patterns did the trick. We tried drys but to no avail. Bono

JL · Senior Member

MX - data recovery services mostly pay by the meg for what they recover, or charge fixed fees for success only. When I lost a harddrive, it was going to cost me 3 or 4 hundred to get it back, but the drive was totaled.

Sucks to lose data.