Truckee River has been very good for many.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Go now and fish from the town of Truckee downstream to the Nevada border.

Andy is at the shop today. He was up there the past two days.

Call him for advice.

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[rosebud]

(This is a copy of what I just tagged on the end of the last Truckee thread.)

Hi all!

Well, fourth time's the charm. I've been flyfishing for 4 years now, sticking mostly to small streams and smaller trout. On my fourth trip to the Truckee, I finally landed a 20" Rainbow. (She looks smaller in the photo, but I swear, I measured her.) She was a beaut and did everything she was suppose to...ran upstream and downstream, went airborne twice, tried going under a rock. I was shaking with adrenaline.

I took my 12-year-old son, just learning to fly fish, and we hit the Truckee from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. this Tuesday fishing upstream from the Glenshire Bridge. I saw a few risers, had a couple of refusals, and nailed this guy on a #8 Stimulator at about 11:00.

BTW, my first three trips...#1 & #2 skunked; #3 two hooked, one broke and one shook off mid-air.

P.S. My son is starting to get discouraged from not catching. He's taken casting lessons and I work as hard as I can to try to help him. Please PM or e-mail me at nseroom2@yahoo.com if you have suggestions for a nearby stream with willing and forgiving trout. Thanks in advance!

- Rick.

[SuperFlyGuy]

id take your son out to some of these small warm water ponds and get him turned onto bluegill. Take some small nymphs and poppers and go at it. They are very forgiving and welcome newcomers to fly fishing with less than perfect casts.

[Adam Grace]

Rosebud, great fish, a 20" trout is a big trout anywhere in California.

As far as the photography goes, try to hold your fish in a way to not cover parts up with your hands or arms, like this:


Notice how my left hand is behind the fish easily griping the base of the tail with only a couple of fingers.


Here Gregg is "cupping" of cradling the fish, harder to do with more feisty/squirmy fish, and even larger fish.

If your photographer gets closer to you, your fish will also appear the right size, not too small. Just make sure you don't lock your elbows and thrust the fish into the lens to make it look like you are trying to make it looks much larger than it really is.


Note that my elbows are at the sides of my body not locked and straight out in front of me.


In this picture, the fisherman is holding the fish a little too close to the lens, not an extreme case yet a little too close for honest comfort.

[rosebud]

Thanks for the tips. I see what I was doing wrong, after the fact, with holding her now that I look at the photo. At the time I was trying to get my son to snap the pic in time (and in focus) to get the trout safely back in the water.

- Rick.