Over time I have collected some tips about fishing small streams - creeks - like my local Piru Creek were I try to practice all of these suggestions.

Inspired by a youtube video which is embedded at the end of this article.  After watching the video I tied up a few and hit my local stream to try them out.  Below is one of the 3 I caught with this style of nymph.

The person demonstrating the tying technique in the video doesn't try too hard to make the materials used easy to see.  It really doesn't matter though.  It's more a style of tying than an exact pattern.  I don't like to waste a perfectly good hook on the tail section, so I use a paper clip.  The tutorial that follows shows an over-sized nymph for the sake of photography.

It took some wasted gas, a handheld GPS and a lot of hiking, but I found the water.  Not much in the way of fish, but certainly worth the effort for the view.  The flows in the photos are much higher than can usually be expected at this time of year - I took them shortly after the storm around Thanksgiving.

Piru Creek has a lot of character in places (that haven't been tagged), and I really enjoy searching for a honey hole.  I haven't found it yet, but I don't mind looking.

A while back I put up an article explaining how I made my pvc fly rod tube for under $10.  It's here: Fly Rod Tube  This weekend I finally got around to finishing it.

Sometimes I hike back to places where having the rod built is nothing but nine feet of frustration.  At those places, I will throw my fly rod tube in the back of my vest until I get to the water.  At the water, I take out the rod and stash the tube in the bushes until I am ready to leave.  I might as well have left the tube in the middle of the trail, since it was impossible to hide being stark white... well, and be able to find it again.

This is my solution.  A camo'd fly rod tube.  Took less than 10 minutes of actual work.

SACRAMENTO - An order today signed by Sacramento Superior Court Judge Patrick Marlette will allow the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) to stock more waters than would have been allowed under his Nov. 6 tentative ruling. The order is a result of weeks of negotiation among DFG, and the Pacific Rivers Council and Center for Biological Diversity, along with their counsel Stanford Legal Clinic.

“DFG fought hard in the negotiations to save its fish stocking programs,” said DFG Director Donald Koch. “We are pleased that the order allows us to continue stocking in a number of areas where the communities depend on fishing.”

The order, with some exceptions, has a broad prohibition against DFG stocking “nonnative” fish in “any California fresh water body” where surveys have demonstrated the presence of 25 specified amphibian or fish species or where a survey for those species has not yet been done. The order does not address the stocking of native fish into native waters.