Got onto the creek around 6:00 PM. Decent hatch of small yellow bodied mayflies and some bigger peach colored caddis with green bodies. Took a sample of insects with my kick-net and found mostly small mayfly nymphs, tiny midge larvae, and a few larger green caddis larvae... Certainly those larval stage insects were matching what was hatching.
So, I tied on an tan elk hair caddis with a green body and a red midge larva dropper and proceeded to pull a few nice fish up on my first few drifts. Got a strike on the caddis from what must have been a 15-16 inch fish right away, and then caught a bunch of smaller fish on the dropper.
Overall, caught 4-5 fish on the dry and 6 or so on the dropper in a couple hours.
Not too bad, but the bigger fish seem to be holding in deeper water.
Hope it's not too late to catch you, JL- thinking of going tomorrow early PM. Were you fishing near the dam? I rarely fish Putah this time of year, but looking for a place to wade safely. It looks like it's nearly 100 out during the day...are folks wet wading? Anybody catching during the heat of the day?
Been out of town, Daniel, sorry for the late reply.
I was fishing around the island at access 5. Putah's water is cold. I've never wet-waded it. Having said that, I don't fish there during the day during the summer - it's too damn hot. I would not want to be in the water without my waders when the sun goes off the water though - I don't think it would be too comfortable.
