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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.

SullyTM
06-14-2006, 01:17 PM
Adam...Where is Butte Creek?

Very nice bug photos, especially the last one. The underside view gives me an idea of what I need to do when tying up some fishable realistics.

Cute little fish also :D

Later. Thom

SteelieD
06-14-2006, 03:15 PM
Dang! I used to sit in Butte Creek during the HOT Chico summers and drink beer. While I don't regret that, I do wish I had been a flyfisherman at the time. Could've combined a couple of my favorite things... beer AND small stream fishing! :D Good pix Adam. Thanks!

Adam Grace
06-14-2006, 04:19 PM
Thom, Butte Creek is up East on Hwy 32 out of chico about 45 minutes.

MSP
06-14-2006, 04:24 PM
Very cool Adam, glad you gave it a shot. I was wondering about that place. I enjoyed it when we fished it last year.

SullyTM
06-14-2006, 06:35 PM
Adam...I bet it's a nice place to wet wade in the summertime! Keep posted on future visits. Thom

jbird
06-14-2006, 08:53 PM
Adam

Those are all wonderful photos.

Thanks for posting!

J

Hairstacker
06-15-2006, 12:18 AM
Yep, love the photos! Great job Adam!

Bill Kiene semi-retired
06-15-2006, 08:56 AM
Great photos Adam.

Do you save all the good ones?

I might want to "borrow" some to class up my web site.