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Thread: Putah Creek and Lake Solano need to be on your list again.

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    Default Putah Creek and Lake Solano need to be on your list again.

    My first real trout fly fishing was on Lake Solano out of a canoe with my good friend and mentor Joe Ng.

    Back in the 1960s and 1970s it was very popular with Sacramento anglers as well as Bay area folks.

    We float tubed it in the summer on Lake Solano with giant mid-day Calleibaetis hatches.

    Local fly fishing legends like Hal Jansen and Mike Monroe fished it a lot.

    Lots of my old buddies from the Fly Fishers of Davis club fished i way back then too.

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    About 5 years ago? they change Putah Creek and Lake Solano from a put-n-take open trout fishery to a

    wild trout status, artificial only, bar-bless hooks with catch-n-release.

    For a while I did not hear much except there were lots of small wild trout in there.

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    I had a nice talk with a young man who lives in Davis, California about fishing Putah Creek.

    I think he is fishing the Euro technique with a size 18 Zebra midge on 5x.

    He said for him it was all about the flows.

    He said the winter flows of 25-50 cfs were too low.

    He said the summer AG flows of 600 cfs were too high.

    He liked the flow around 200-250 cfs in the spring and particularly the late summer and early fall.

    He said August and September were usually very good.

    He is fishing the first few mile below the dam at Lake Berryessa.

    He seems to be a very good fly fishing growing up in Redding around the The Fly Shop.

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    Here is our fishing report page @ Kiene's Fly Shop

    https://www.reports.americanflyfishing.com/putah-creek

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    Bill Kiene (Boca Grande)

    567 Barber Street
    Sebastian, Florida 32958

    Fly Fishing Travel Consultant
    Certified FFF Casting Instructor

    Email: billkiene63@gmail.com
    Cell: 530/753-5267
    Web: www.billkiene.com

    Contact me for any reason........
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    Any flow 200 and above are good. Just have to change tactics and water types. Dam to dam, the fishery is great.

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