I seem to always find myself saying "yeah I was meaning to make it out to --insert body of water here-- a lot more this year and learn how to fish it." Generally this is an empty statement and more wishful thinking than an actual prospect. However I did make it out to pyramid lake a two times this last week. I made it out there the first time because the truckee has been a little slow and there's been quite a few more anglers than I'm used to... the second time I made it out there I realized two things:
1. Pyramid Lake is like traveling to an alien planet that is beautiful, mysterious and has all sort of weird animals and fishes to observe (or catch... or not catch).
2. My casting skills are sub-sub-par. And standing on a ladder in the wind, with nothing but expansive water around you, with the prospect of a giant cutthroat-- isn't the worst way to hone some casting skills.
I landed a couple of "small" fish with various sparkly nymphs fished fairly high in the water column and Justin did considerably better fishing various woolly bugger combinations on a long sink-tip.
Of course I'm beginning to form a theory that Justin is taking me to the noob spots -- observe: Fish caught while fishing with me:
Fish caught the next day while I was pounding my head against a keyboard at work:
hmmmm....
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Spring Fishing at Pyramid
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Time to dump Justin and find yourself a new fishing buddy ;-) Pyramid Lake is on the "Gotta try before I die" list. I've been by there, and the alien concept is pretty accurate. Keep working on those sub-sub-par skills (I can't imagine your casting is that bad).
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Haha-- good to hear from you Scott-- it was really bad since I hadn't really cast a shooting head before (other than a very short one for swinging streamers on the truckee river). It's amazing what a couple of days on a big windy stillwater will do for your casting though...
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