putah creek

[rippinstreamers]

Got a little tired of blanking on the American so I thought I would try my hand at trout fishing again. The creek was at about 122 cfs and had a slight green color to the water and the baetis were about. Landed three nice fish and had a few more takers. I wanted to try some euro nymphing with my 10.5 3 wt. greys, turned out to be a great stick for that river. The fish took a #16 bwo nymph and the other two were on a size 10 black stone. Check out the second fish's fins, there were some funky parasite like thinks wiggling on them!

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[Rossflyguy]

Putah Creek trout are always good looking fish. Was the fishing bleeding on the fins where those parasites were? I new there was winter stones but never heard of anyone with success. I've seen them really small, like size 18-14. Size 10 is surprising.

[rippinstreamers]

no blood that I could remember, but they were on all of its fins. I wasn't suspecting the size ten to work either, it was my heavy anchor for the deep fast water I was fishing.