Right now there's a storm dumping snow some of which melted and refroze to make some nasty roads. And before that it was amazingly cold and clear with the days warming into the 30's and 40's and the nights getting cold enough to make a whole bunch of ice in the river. But here I am procrastinating school work again, even though finishing it will mean I am done with engineering school. Forever.
Anyways... to more important things. Like fishing. I just talked to two guys who couldn't shake the stank yesterday-- I stayed home to do important things. Like nothing. However friday I hit the river and had an extremely epic day (relative to my previous experiences). I hit a hole that consistently produces in winter for me and stuck a bunch of fish using a #16 wired prince nymph and a #18 dark blue midge with silver rib and sparkly thorax. I dropped these under a stonefly nymph in hopes of moving some fish a little bit and to get the flies to the bottom. To even wade I brought a stick to break the ice near the bank in fear that I would cut my waders by pushing ice with my legs. It was an amazing day with 3 fish coming to hand that broke the 20" mark and 4 or 5 fish in the 16" to 19" range. I ran into two other anglers that day-- a guy slinging a rapala that claims he hooked a monster brown that morning and a fellow fly fisherman. We swapped some stories and some info and I'll be damned if I didn't run into him in sportsman's warehouse today (what can I say - I'm a sucker for the bargain bin). It was a good day to stay home and tie methinks.
It only took about 3 hours before my body temperature dropped to the point that my teeth chattered and it was hard to cast or even pay attention to my indicator. I'm such a pansy. A crotch leak in the waders didn't help.
and I was pretty ecstatic to land a 16" spawned out brown:
a 22" football - on ice:
(am I supposed to report tagged fish? anybody?):
fighting fish that turned out to be nearly spotless. I'm thinking
this fish is the closest thing to a cutthroat (of the non-stocked variety)
that I've seen on the truckee - it had a nice red throat (not pictured):
Well I think I'll stay out of the cold-@ss water until the weather is a little more manageable. But man I had a good time. Now the challenge is going to be finding a hole that's a little less well known. This one gets a steady stream of all types of anglers. And I can't imagine my posting here is going to help that. Until next time.
1 comments:
Those wire prince nymphs are really good! You are skilled at finding those fish! That cutthroat was awesome, it looks like a pyramid lake cutthroat!
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