I fished Butte Creek yesterday

[Adam Grace]

I fished Butte creek yesterday and only caught a few small trout.



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.


I caught and hooked a couple on stimulators and caught one on a #14 PT.

Here's one of those fish.


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.


Some were light colored like a newly emreged dun.


Unfortunately I didn't have any flies that size or color, the closest was this light cahill.


Here are some of the shucks.

This shuck is from a stubby stonefly (I think) or maybe a clinger style mayfly nymph.


A swimmer type of mayfly.


Look at the size of this mayfly shuck.


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.





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]

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

Later. Thom

[SteelieD]

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! Good pix Adam. Thanks!

[Adam Grace]

Thom, Butte Creek is up East on Hwy 32 out of chico about 45 minutes.

[MSP]

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]

Adam...I bet it's a nice place to wet wade in the summertime! Keep posted on future visits. Thom

[jbird]

Adam

Those are all wonderful photos.

Thanks for posting!

J

[Hairstacker]

Yep, love the photos! Great job Adam!

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Great photos Adam.

Do you save all the good ones?

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