Putah Creeks Lighter Side

SK60 · Senior Member

Putah Creeks Lighter Side

LilWhippersnapper · Senior Member

1. Dr. Bombay
2. A plant and it is native?
3. One of the originals of Putah Creek. He wrote books about flyfishing?
4. What I still play with when I take my bubble baths.
5. Yes... Steelhead.
6. Lisbon Slough... It catches water at low tide?
7. Interdam Reach is the area between access 5 and the dam. Stoneflies are not a major food source.
8. Glossosoma is a caddis. It's common name is "Little Black Short Horned Sedges".
9. False.
10. Rainbow trout, carp, stickleback, hitch?

-- Edited by LilWhippersnapper on Wednesday 18th of November 2009 01:44:48 AM

DrBombay · Senior Member

I think whippersnapper is close but not all are correct.

SK60 · Senior Member

He has 5 of them more or less right.

mx19 · Senior Member

Iam waiting to read what emerger is going to come up with.should be funny ....

rgloft · Senior Member

Is a rubber duckie what I play with when I take a bath a fresh water otter ?

vince · Senior Member

I agree with WhipperSnapper, except on:

(2) A split tail is a hatchery trout, and it's most definitely not native.

(3) Orvis is a PC author, famous for his "How to build a 9' fast action 5 Wt from common garden tools"

(4) I think a rubber ducky is what's lodged in the trees in the middle of the creek.

(8) Glossosoma is a caddis, but I think its more common name is the case making caddis.

Vince

-- Edited by vince on Wednesday 18th of November 2009 12:14:19 PM

Otter · Senior Member

2. Sacramento Split Tail. Great bait for big stripers in the Delta and Sac River. Found only in the lower Putah Creek.

8. Glossosoma Saddle Case Caddis. Smaller tan caddis identified by a rock case. Fished best with a tan hares ear or a hares ear soft hackle.

SK60 · Senior Member

Well, a few more right answers, but still no cap!

Otter, the Sac split tail was a threatened species-I hope you aren't using it for bait. to complete the answer, it is a native minnow. You can catch them at Stevenson's bridge (lower Creek) on bead head nymphs, up to 8".

-- Edited by SK60 on Wednesday 18th of November 2009 12:55:04 PM

-- Edited by SK60 on Wednesday 18th of November 2009 01:00:14 PM

vince · Senior Member

Damn, and I was convinced a split tail was a derogatory word for a hatchery fish!

Fish do live in the lower creek - carp. I think I remember reading that Andy at Kiene's guides for bass too around there? There was also a post a while back about some actual trout caught in Winters. Also, salmon come up too I believe.

Ty · Senior Member

Vince, I fish lower Putah often. I live 2 miles from the creek in Davis. There's plenty of bass in there, but it's tapering off now. Does anyone know if the lower part closed on the 15th for the season? Or can I still fish it?

vince · Senior Member

Ty: do you fly fish for bass there, or spin fish? I live in Davis too, and I'd like to see how fly roding for bass down there is done

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SK60 · Senior Member

I would think that, since it is not in the Creek area under special regs, the regular season rules would apply. If trout are present, that would mean closed to all fishing (paragraph 7.50 of the regs) during the closed trout season.

These days you might also have to worry about anadromous species, especially salmon, being present during the winter months.

-- Edited by SK60 on Wednesday 18th of November 2009 05:57:59 PM

Ty · Senior Member

vince wrote:

Ty: do you fly fish for bass there, or spin fish? I live in Davis too, and I'd like to see how fly roding for bass down there is done .

All with the fly rod. I'm no expert but I've used top water poppers, woolly buggers and clousers. It's fun and close to home.

DrBombay · Senior Member

I'll take my best shot at the ones not answered yet. #10 1 rainbow trout 2 riffle sculpin 3 stickleback 4 Sucker. Question #7 of course stoneflies are not a staple they like faster highly oxygenated water not weedy and slower like putah, IDR is from monticello dam down to lake solano diversion dam. #9 clay bottom ? Tough call but I'll say yes. Pickeral weir, Not a clue. Do i get a hat for being the most prolific poster

Oh and wippersnapper I doubt its the rubber ducky your playin with.

-- Edited by DrBombay on Wednesday 18th of November 2009 06:44:47 PM

SK60 · Senior Member

Well the doctor got all the rest but 6. Might have to go with a cap to both the Dr and LWS.

The Pickerel weir is just below the diversion dam and is an in-creek rock structure designed to increase holding and spawning areas for salmon. Its on private property owned by Mr. Pickerel and is accessed only with permission. Does anyone know the name of Mr. Pickerel's famous chain of eaterys?

The under lying substrate for much of the creek channel bottom, especially in slower flowing areas of the lower creek, is hardpan. You can see sections of it at Access 5 on the backside below the culvert pipe-has a rippled appearance.

DrBombay · Senior Member

I thought of access 5 on the clay bottom question. Is it Mr. Pickels sandwiche chain ?

SK60 · Senior Member

He owns the Buckhorn in Winters and a number of other Buckhorns around the north state.