I think it may have some thing to do with the high flows we've experienced so far this year at Putah and on most of the running waters. I think you may find the number of posts increasing later this month and throughout the rest of the summer when the flows drop. It shouldn't be too much longer.

I also don't have many opportunities to get out, although I'm off to Plumas county in late June and mid-July for a few days. I'll report my findings if anyone is interested.

Patrick wrote:

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I think it may have some thing to do with the high flows we've experienced so far this year at Putah and on most of the running waters. I think you may find the number of posts increasing later this month and throughout the rest of the summer when the flows drop. It shouldn't be too much longer. I also don't have many opportunities to get out, although I'm off to Plumas county in late June and mid-July for a few days. I'll report my findings if anyone is interested.

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Let us know how you make out in Plumas...I like learning about different areas to fish and the various fishing conditions. I'll be up around Mt Lassen next week and let folks know about my adventures.

I was up there all day Saturday and Sunday morning, the toyota parked by Red Bridge.  I watched one guy on Sunday morning fishing the run just upstream from the bridge, I spoke with a couple other folks who had picked up a few nice ones in the main creek on hoppers.  I had very similar results to you though most of my fish came on nymphs, things finally started to click for me on the nymphs here, so that was rewarding even though I left quite a few flies in the trees and stuck on the bottom.  I was using split shot of varying weight depending on the current 10" above a larger nymph on 5X, below that I had a smaller nymph tied off 10" on 6X.  I found the 6X was prone to tangling under the slightest provocation and was wondering if I'd actually do better staying with 5X on bottom nymph as well, the theory being that the slightly larger diameter line would be a little less prone to tangling.  Very rarely would I lose only the bottom nymph so I don't see that as a problem and the fish here were hitting either nymph with no apparent preference.  Once the rig started to twist up and become tangled I found it fastest and cleanest to just cut everything back, pocket the offending rat's nest to be thrown away later, and re-tie everything with fresh knots and tippet material.  Anyone have any pointers to share on this?

The stoneflies were impressive here and there were at least two types, a larger orangy colored one and a smaller yellow one.  I couldn't quite tell if that evening hatch was a stonefly returning to lay eggs or a mayfly of some sort, both were present throughout the day but really got rocking at dusk.  There were lots of different bugs to choose from though and that made it interesting.

Full disclosure, overall I'm more on the knucklehead side of the fly fishing skill scale, someone who really knew what they were doing would have a field day here.