I took these pictures on a day in early January-- We had a 2 week (or so) spell of unseasonably warm weather that made the fishing really great. The nights were still getting extremely cold thus keeping snow melt from clouding the water and keeping the fish in some really slow water. I was posting some fairly regular updates from this time on my other blog but I generally just slapped down some crappy cell phone pictures and called it good. Finally I took the wife's nice camera (Canon 30D) and snapped some decent pictures on a sunny weekend day (note: I'm far too lazy to photoshop these):
18" fatty among the usual bank-side detritus
A chewed up stonefly pattern-- a great lead fly
(Here is the pattern-- check out all of Bob Jacklin's flies-- they work!)
(Here is the pattern-- check out all of Bob Jacklin's flies-- they work!)
Being in the river wrangling some nice trout with a glitzy casino
looming on the horizon creates a strange dichotomy
that makes the day sometimes feel a bit surreal:
The typical winter truckee cutt-bow-- 16" is the norm!
The beginning of January produced some of the most brilliantly
colored trout I've yet seen:
colored trout I've yet seen:
Sometimes I forget that I'm in the middle of a city-- I mean,
you'd think the beer bottles, shoes, plastic bags, syringes etc
would remind me but at the end of the day I usually find myself
uplifted and admiring the beauty of the river on the walk back to the car:
you'd think the beer bottles, shoes, plastic bags, syringes etc
would remind me but at the end of the day I usually find myself
uplifted and admiring the beauty of the river on the walk back to the car:
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