Putah Saturday 10/29 evening

georgek · Veteran Member

Putah Saturday 10/29 evening

iamamultitasker · Senior Member

Nice. I haven't seen anything larger than 10" rising. Want to share the location? smile

BTW, were there a lot of people on the Creek on Sat?

georgek · Veteran Member

I saw two other people up there. Granted I didnt get up there til 4 or 430. I was between the bridge and access one.

iamamultitasker · Senior Member

georgek wrote:
I was between the bridge and access one.

Thanks. Well that just narrows it down to a mile! wink I'll take a look around that area in the evening when I fish this week to see if I can spot some risers.

georgek · Veteran Member

closer to the bridge than #1.

georgek · Veteran Member

I also saw one or two come all the way out of the water, which (in my understanding) means emergers, but i was feeling lazy and didnt want to change flies.

iamamultitasker · Senior Member

George,

Thanks for the info. Will report back in if I can catch on the surface. Getting tired of robonymphing....

shon42073 · Senior Member

I fished it friday evening for the first time in about a year. I headed out with 2 spots in mind I wan't to fish and wouldn't you know both were takin, I think SK60 was at one spot and a guide with client at the other, Maybe it was Bono, I was surprised to find someone in that spot. So I had to go with the 3rd option. As most reports have said lots of small fish in there now, Good for the future ! Despite good insect activity I saw very few risers. Managed one nice putah freight train on a white beadheaed 20 zebra midge, A welcome back gift from putah I guess.

SK60 · Senior Member

That could have been me and Marcel S. Bono was guiding as well. Small fish only to hand and small numbers of small risers scattered at each spot (no obvious hatch, just scattered caddis and what may have been BWO). This is the first year in 5 where I've seen fish rising in any numbers.

Ty · Senior Member

Ya, this is interesting. I've never felt that dries were even an option at Putah until this year. Anyone have any thoughts about regarding the surface activity?

lightfoot · Senior Member

I can remember back to the late 70's early 80's of dry fly fishing in lake Solano. I used to float tube as late as the mid 90's from the island down to the lower bridge and did quite well during the Summer months. Kind of interesting to note that the majority of fish caught were browns.

iamamultitasker · Senior Member

lightfoot wrote:
Kind of interesting to note that the majority of fish caught were browns.

I second this. I caught a lot of fish on dries in the 90's and quite a few of them were browns near access #5, mostly feral/holdovers from the Lake Solano stocks.

SK60 · Senior Member

It will be interesting to see if during January the BWO's are thick enough to bring the increasing numbers of small fish to the surface in large numbers, as was the rule 10 years ago?

bono · Master Fly Fishing Guide

Yeah I was there with 2 clients doing a class while Steve Rob the DFG and a few others were working hard pulling weeds ( I kinda felt guilty). We actually had a slow morning and I saw very few insects, literally like 3 bwo's and a very small midge hatch, didnt see a single riser either. Hopefully its better this Friday! Greg