12/23 report

flyfishfreak · Member

12/23 report

Daara · Senior Member

I believe turnouts 4 and 5 are closed to fishin. so just for next time, go up further to 2,1,and below the bridge that crosses the creek a bit after turnout 1. There is a riffle a bit down the creek from the bridge, try some egg patternes and zebra midges. Hooked some nice rainbows there!

shon42073 · Senior Member

no sections of putah are closed daara.

Daara · Senior Member

I appologize. I was miss informed, thanks for the correction.

deaddrift · Member

fished on friday ,just below the fence in a tailout
was some time after 10 a.m and going from 5 to this place there were a ton of ff on the creek ,just below the tail out there was a grand hatch of bwo and midges ,we watched the fish porpose and some leap clean outta the water ,they were jumping over our indicators was fun to watch seemed the fly of the day was anything size 20 in white pref bh,got a lot of hits no fish to hand ,and my partner the same withone 14 incher to hand ,lots of good cigars and to top it off my first case of the poison,sheesh stay away long enough and its bound to find ya ,must have been when I was collecting my lasy wht fly outta the stix,shoot ,ive been itchin ta do somethin but the itchinwasnt supposed to be this real,

water was way low and mighty slo,good thing didnt se any of them pesky mudsnails
tight lines
double d

Newt · Newbie

Hello all,

My buddy and I are looking forward to fishing Putah for the first time on Thursday. Came across this site while doing some research and have found some pretty good info for getting started. Any additional advice you folks want to offer a Putah newbie would would be appreciated.

Matt · Veteran Member

Hey Newt
Use small flies.

shon42073 · Senior Member

my thoughts exactly u must go small, size 20 or 22. If ur fishin a 16 or 18 on putah u may as well be using a a big ol salmon or stelhead fly. Oh and egg patterns have been pretty good lately, of course u dont have to go nearly as small with an egg. So i think i might start with a red midge, or zebra midge with an egg dropper. Just my 2 cents worth.

Newt · Newbie

Thanks for the advice. We will be going small.

bono · Master Fly Fishing Guide

Putah is a very popular place to use very small flies but one of the drawbacks to the size 20-22 flies is when you hook a fish,especially a large fish the hook seems to come out more times than not.Proper presentation as far as I'm concerned is just as important.I usually use #16-18 and rarely especially in the winter months I may use a #20 but only in the egg style hook tmc 2487 which has a comparitavely large gape.In fact last year one of the bigger fish taken by one of my clients was on a beadhead birdsnest #10,he landed one fish that was 26" and lost one even bigger on that same fly ! But as the old story goes you have to be confident with the flies you use and if that means #20-#22 hooks than by golly go fer it.

Nohackle · Senior Member

Greg, I agree with you comments about fly size. As I mentioned in a previous post, I tie many of my flies on a Tiemco 3769 size 16. This gives me the gap of a size 16, but the body length of a size 18 nymph. I've also tried smaller flies, but seemed to have lost too many fish, particularly the better ones.

One other question, though. Flyfishfreak mentioned that he used 6X tippet. To me, this seems a bit too light for tippet material on Putah. It's my feeling that if you hook a good fish and he gets downstream, it would be really tough to land him on 6X. When he gets downstream, you are not only fighting the fish, you are fighting the current. Hence, my reservations about using 6X. I typically use 5X. Any comments?

frog · Member

I have had consistant success with a #14 to #16 nymph that looks like a hare's ear except it has an orange body with a green metallic portion on it's thorax. I don't know the name of it but I have had good luck in lots of places with it.

bono · Master Fly Fishing Guide

We are in agreement again Mr Nohackel as I too use 5x tippet to my first fly and then step it down to 6x for my second and typically smaller fly....works for me!Also could the fly Frog mentioned possibly be a version of a small October Caddis?