Check Your Calendars

Write in some times that work best for you in the comments bar below, then we'll work to make a date that's good for everybody. For our first trip let's go for mid to late may somewhere, and for later trip(s) I need other months/weeks suggestions as well.Our first trip is set but we have another tie, so when all date suggestions are in we will see if we can't make 3 trips this year. But if we can't work that out we'll vote again between the two tied trips and go from there. Can't wait to get back on the water with all you guys, to good times and tight lines.

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Putah Creek Huh?

Fortunately the name has little to do with the quality of fishery, because I have to say Putah creek does'nt exactly conjure up images of place someone would want to visit let alone drive 6 hrs to fish for 4-5. But that's where we were (Hares ear, Klinkhammer, and mosquito) and darn it we'd make the best of it
Arrived at around 6:30 and their was a frost over everything and fog was trying to move in but the sun had begun to change both to a bright clear day. Met a couple of anglers near a parking area and found they were from modesto and had seen some youtube videos of the creek and decided to fish it.... sounds familir. Air temp. 33 degrees water temp. 46, so I hope it warms up a little. Hatches of midges were out early and we did see one good rise but other than that we saw nothing all morning. We all threw something different thinking that by splitting up and covering alot of water one of us would find the trick, But half the day in we were starting to beleave it would take much longer than a day to figure it out.
Lunch time, now we could regroup, discuss, plan, and even more importantly eat. A green bomb burrito and a soda later we're back on the water but this time a little further down stream and right off we notice something different, fish. And in no time I've hooked into one of the biggest fish I'd ever caught, zzzziiippp like a flash it shoots through the shallow water right in front of Klink making a strong run for the submerged tree and is no sooner wrapped around a limb, I jump the tree franticly sloshing through the creek to free it and was able to loosen it only long enough to wrap another snag give a few head shakes and wiggled right off the barbless hook aargghh.
It only got better from there and when all was said and done Klink had quite a few fish and even caught someone elses fly. He tied it on and turned out to be the hot fly of the day, nice catch. Also fish started to rise to some fairly large bwo's an olive dun worked well for me as I rose a couple rainbows.
Good day of fishing on some new water with a couple of the fly's was great but more importently I learned Just like you don't judge a book by it's cover you don't judge a place by the name. Good times and tight lines.

More locations needed

Anyone who has some more trip ideas for us add them in the comments bar below, add as many as you'd like

2012 Trip Poll Results

This years results are in and with 4 votes Manzanita and Mccumber lakes have been chosen!!
However we are not finished just yet, there is a logjam at 2nd place with 3 votes each the Carson and upper Sacramento rivers and lake Davis all had 3 votes. So we'll open another poll with the 3 said places only this time you only vote once. -Update- Results for round 2 are in there's a tie between Upper Sac and Lake Davis, so another vote is possible so stay tuned

Results-
1. Manzanita/mccumber 4 votes
2. Carson river
Upper Sacramento. 3 votes
Lake Davis
3. Upper Truckee river. 2 votes
4. Deer/Yellow creek. 1 vote
5. Trinity river. 0 votes Rnd #2 1. Carson river 1 vote 2. Upper Sac 3 votes 3. Lake Davis 3 votes

Take The Challenge

The California Heritage Trout Challenge gives anglers a chance not only to catch wild trout from their native drainages but for completing the challenge by catching, photographing, and recording any combination of the 6 of 11 native trout species still fishable in California. You will receive a personalized certificate with artwork from renowned fish illustrator Joseph Tomelari, showing color images representative of the 6 trout you caught along with date and location.
3 subspecies of cutthroat trout and 8 subspecies of rainbow trout are your target. Mosquito has identified 7 of them that are in our in our fishing range. Excluding the 3 golden trout for they require long hikes into wilderness in southern California, every other fish can be accessed within a reasonable area for a five fly's trip. Coastal cutthroat and lahontan, and coastal rainbow, eagle lake, McCloud, goose lake, and Warner lakes redbands are all catchable.

So are you up for the challenge.

club patch/ logo

PLEASE SOMEONE COME UP WITH A CLUB LOGO SO I CAN GET SOME T-SHIRT'S PRINTED BEFORE OUR NEXT TRIP.. I'M TO NEW TOO THE TEAM TO PICK ONE OUT, SO SOMEONE PLEASE POST ONE, (OR MAYBE A FEW AND WE CAN VOTE) AND ILL GET IT GOING.. HERE'S A COUPLE I FOUND