JasonB
04-01-2011, 10:07 AM
Well I don't think I am the only one who has had a rather tough March, with all the high water and such especially. I was also suffering from a bit of a nasty streak of loosing the few fish I was managing to get to strike. Finally had a break through yesterday on a fine spring day on the Truckee.
Lost one after a very brief encounter, started to worry that I had a curse put on me as far as being able to land one... but thankfully a few minutes later I hooked (and landed!) my first Truckee river Brown. The struggle to land the brown took me downstream of the hole, and unfortunately made a bit of splashing and thrashing in the process. After sorting my rig out a bit,
I slowly started to wade back up towards the main part of the hole but decided to make a rather lame half hearted effort to probe the tailout. I knew that there could be fish there, but I was more thinking that the "main" hole probably needed a few moments to cool back off, so I figure why not fish my way back up slowly.
I threw a very short lob, more of a get the line back in the water than a real cast and drift, and yet, not two feet into the drift I hooked another! This one took me for a real ride half way down into the next small rapid, and turned out to be my biggest rainbow yet! Although bigger (19" +/-), this one wasn't exactly photo worthy: not only was it not all that colorful, but also looked like it had been beat on just about every day of it's life or something. No matter, I couldn't have been happier... the rest of the day had no action but it was still a wonderful sunny day on the river and FINALLY broke out of my March slump. Springtime here we come :D
JB
(ps: I'm still working on adding photos. They always come out much smaller than I intend them too)
Lost one after a very brief encounter, started to worry that I had a curse put on me as far as being able to land one... but thankfully a few minutes later I hooked (and landed!) my first Truckee river Brown. The struggle to land the brown took me downstream of the hole, and unfortunately made a bit of splashing and thrashing in the process. After sorting my rig out a bit,
I slowly started to wade back up towards the main part of the hole but decided to make a rather lame half hearted effort to probe the tailout. I knew that there could be fish there, but I was more thinking that the "main" hole probably needed a few moments to cool back off, so I figure why not fish my way back up slowly.
I threw a very short lob, more of a get the line back in the water than a real cast and drift, and yet, not two feet into the drift I hooked another! This one took me for a real ride half way down into the next small rapid, and turned out to be my biggest rainbow yet! Although bigger (19" +/-), this one wasn't exactly photo worthy: not only was it not all that colorful, but also looked like it had been beat on just about every day of it's life or something. No matter, I couldn't have been happier... the rest of the day had no action but it was still a wonderful sunny day on the river and FINALLY broke out of my March slump. Springtime here we come :D
JB
(ps: I'm still working on adding photos. They always come out much smaller than I intend them too)