Been fishing the creek for a few years now and today had easily my largest trout ever on my line. 24" roughly and fat as hell! Unfortunately after a few massive jumps it spit my hook out. I've seen others catch that size and a couple larger but what is the biggest caught out of here? Curious.
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24" fish is only a 24" fish if you get a chance to measure it. Let's just call it a good fish. Big boys coming up from Solano. They're getting ready for the spawn. Almost time to give them a rest for the season. Someone had told me they hooked a 30" but I wasn't there soooo who's to say. That's the biggest I've heard caught. Biggest I've seen was 26", measured. But there are fish in there that'll put a 7 wt rod to work for sure. Those monsters live in the deep water and under the undercut banks if you know where those are at.
-- Edited by Rossflyguy on Wednesday 27th of September 2017 07:40:45 PM
If you go to the Putah Creek photo album, you'll see several pictures of 28" fish. Some others appear to be at least that big. So a 24 incher is a great fish but not close to a Putah creek record.
Memorable fish from Putah. A brown in Lake Solano back in the early 80's that was pushing the upper 20's. Two rainbows measured at 26" on the same day about a mile apart back in the early 90's. I've hooked 2 fish that were pushing 30" and have seen one fish while doing surveys that was well over 30".
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