The river is still quite low. Spent all morning fishing with my brother who caught his first Truckee River brown... female: 18 inches! He had a pink/green/white rooster tail lure on. The fish was at the tail end of a run right before the run changes to a pool, deep slower water right after the fast water slowed down a bit if that makes any sense. We were fishing a long stretch below the new whitewater park in Sparks, beautiful day... good times!
Hey Brian...I was wondering if you would post the blind auction flyer for the rod that Mikey donated. You might recognize the fly patch in the picture.
I fished down there the day before, the water was still off and I had my doubts, but it fished surprisingly well all day. That spike after the rain really mucked it up, the wading was nasty with the silt on all the rocks. Too bad the rivers been fluctuated so much over the past week, they cut the flow outta Boca(it's super scary low) and they're bumped em up to 100 out of prosser. When I was at Gilligan's house on Sunday you could see the white on all the rocks, the flow in Hirschdale is probably 180 something... it's scary. They're not even making the Farad Minimum.
6-22-10 The Truckee is high but fishable. There are a variety of mayflies, caddis, and stones right now. The green drakes are showing up through town right now along with march browns and a smattering of different caddis. The caddis are actually hatching in good numbers towards evening right now. For nymphing try a heavy dropper (like a stonefly) and a bottom roller or caddis pupa dropper. Or fish three flies: stone, caddis, mayfly nymph. Andy Burk's hunchback march brown is a dynamite pattern this time of year and there are yellow stones falling out of the bushes right now so keep a few yellow stone patterns around. For streamers try sculpins or another big-headed streamer pattern-- you will probably need a sink tip to get them where they need to be this time of year.
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