Cache Creek surprise

[ryeflyguy]

Tried Cache Creek for an hour or so hoping to get into some smallmouth. I was using a #10 rusty brown wooly bugger with no success, until just as the fly was swinging into the slower water near the bank I felt a tug. Set up, and pretty soon I was thinking, darn, I must have a pike minnow or a hardhead from the way this thing is fighting. Got it in close and got a good look... that looks like... nah it can't be... but it was an 8" rainbow!! That poor little feller will be hurting in a couple of months when the water starts to warm up.

My only fish of the day...

[Fisher76]

What part of the creek were you on?

[ryeflyguy]

About 3 miles west of Woodland, east of I-505

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Maybe those trout run upstream as the water warms if there are no dams?

[ryeflyguy]

Maybe so, that little fella would have had to have gone a long way to get into water cool enough to sustain him through the summer. I was wondering if it got washed downstream from Indian Valley?

[metalhead]

Wow, that is pretty impressive if that guy made past Woodland all the way from the Sacramento. Hope there are more like him out there. That water does get skinny by the first of June. We have decent flows on Cache Creek during the spring, but not for long.

[ryeflyguy]

I was out on Cache Creek last week, the water is a lot lower & warmer now, not too many places for a little trout to hang out (without having to contend with larger smallmouth, pike minnow, etc.)...

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Are there dams on Cache Creek?