About a week back some where on Putah I was doing a 1/2 day guided trip with a client and he hooked into a very healthy 22-23" brown. Took him for a ride and into some weeds, and popped off. Also at a particular time each yr there is always a bruiser brown hanging in the same general area. This yr good ol buddy richard hooked um and the fish broke off. This fish aka MOBY DICK is just that, a bruiser and each yr it seems to break me or a buddy off. Some day moby dick will be landed.
Like James said, they are they, just need to know where to look. A few yrs back a good friend pick up a nice brown on putah throwing a streamer type pattern.
I love fishing the creek late summer early fall. Flows come down, and the fish are aggressively feeding, getting ready for winter. During this time I move around the creek a lot and in the past 2-3yrs I havent noticed any redds during this time. Before then I would always see a few scattered about, but unfortunitly I havent seen any in a few yrs. These redds are a bit to early for rainbows, so I always suspected them to be redds from browns, but never saw any fish on them. Anyone else seeing this or should I say not seeing this. Sad really, cuz putah has everything browns would want. Food, habitat, cover and a lake to go cruise in with even more food. Just like the LT.
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I don't understand why Browns don't tear up the habitat of lower Putah into Lake Solano. I used to live back East and looking at the Creek it should have a booming population. I dont get it!
Oh well. I'm thankful there are good Rainbows in the creek. Although I usually only hear about them. I am new here but if it is managed well and if our efforts continue in the direction that Steve Karr Greg Bono and others are going we have good chance at a special fishery.
Three or four years ago I landed a 23-inch brown from Putah. Unfortunately, it was foul-hooked. Naturally, I was disappointed that it wasn't mouth-hooked. However, my indicator did go down and I did get the enjoyment of fighting and landing a truly beautiful fish. Believe me, it put a huge strain on my 5X tippet. I'm guessing it was in the 5 lb. range.
There's a variety of Brown Trout in the North of Ireland called Dollaghan, that live in a large lake, Lough Neagh and spawn in the tributaries in the fall. They get up to 10lbs and fight like Steelhead. I used to fish for them as a kid in the Moyola.
I would imagine that any Lake Solano Brown Trout would be a similar sort of fish.
-- Edited by Bob Loblaw on Friday 2nd of December 2011 10:50:21 AM
