Adam Grace
06-14-2006, 12:52 PM
I fished Butte creek yesterday and only caught a few small trout.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/fishing/IMGP0238.jpg
The water looks pretty good, definately fishable but still a little too high for my taste. The high water severely limited my dry fly opportunities within the pocket water sections.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/fishing/IMGP0237.jpg
I caught and hooked a couple on stimulators and caught one on a #14 PT.
Here's one of those fish.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/fishing/IMGP0273.jpg
The really cool part of the trip was the amount of large mayflies that were flying around and landing on me. I've never seen so many large mayflies on a small stream like this. These mayflies were about a #12 or large #14. Here are just a sample of the many pictures that I took of the mayflies.
There were different stages of this mayfly flying around, or they were two different mayflies, some were dark colored like a post molted mayfly.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0243.jpg
Some were light colored like a newly emreged dun.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0271.jpg
Unfortunately I didn't have any flies that size or color, the closest was this light cahill.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0277.jpg
Here are some of the shucks.
This shuck is from a stubby stonefly (I think) or maybe a clinger style mayfly nymph.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0282.jpg
A swimmer type of mayfly.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0258.jpg
Look at the size of this mayfly shuck.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0320.jpg
I also saw some stoneflies but the cloudy weather made them sluggish. I never saw one flying around, unlike the large amounts of those large maylfies.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0303.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0290.jpg
I enjoyed taking pictures of the insects and the scenery. I had a fun day, maybe after the flows go down a little bit more I can catch more fish with a dry fly.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/fishing/IMGP0238.jpg
The water looks pretty good, definately fishable but still a little too high for my taste. The high water severely limited my dry fly opportunities within the pocket water sections.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/fishing/IMGP0237.jpg
I caught and hooked a couple on stimulators and caught one on a #14 PT.
Here's one of those fish.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/fishing/IMGP0273.jpg
The really cool part of the trip was the amount of large mayflies that were flying around and landing on me. I've never seen so many large mayflies on a small stream like this. These mayflies were about a #12 or large #14. Here are just a sample of the many pictures that I took of the mayflies.
There were different stages of this mayfly flying around, or they were two different mayflies, some were dark colored like a post molted mayfly.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0243.jpg
Some were light colored like a newly emreged dun.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0271.jpg
Unfortunately I didn't have any flies that size or color, the closest was this light cahill.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0277.jpg
Here are some of the shucks.
This shuck is from a stubby stonefly (I think) or maybe a clinger style mayfly nymph.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0282.jpg
A swimmer type of mayfly.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0258.jpg
Look at the size of this mayfly shuck.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0320.jpg
I also saw some stoneflies but the cloudy weather made them sluggish. I never saw one flying around, unlike the large amounts of those large maylfies.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0303.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/flyguyag/bugs/IMGP0290.jpg
I enjoyed taking pictures of the insects and the scenery. I had a fun day, maybe after the flows go down a little bit more I can catch more fish with a dry fly.