Feather River Salmon

My buddy called last week and said the salmon fishing was going off on the Feather and the Sac. We decided to hit the Feather because we have a lot of good memories there.  We fished on saturday and had pretty decent luck.  We were able to get 3 in the boat and lost another 4, my buddy Danny killed it, both fish above were his. 

The "Provo Hooker"

   Sat down and tied up a new streamer pattern I found on finpusher.com.  These guys catch some serious browns in Utah and Montana.  I imagine its good practice to try out new flies in the areas you frequent so trout don't become framiliar with your patterns, sometimes hard to believe when you look at how fast streamers move through the water though.  Over the last few years I have had success tying up local guide patterns and patterns a highway patrolman buddy of mine runs(6"+).  However, lately I have  had little success landing trophy browns in the 24"-30" range.  Mabey the "Provo Hooker" will do the "trick".... 

Browns

Had a good day exploring the river today. I traveled into waters I have been wanting to fish for several years but have been to lazy to venture to.  I moved several fish today and lost some dandys.  The water temps are getting back into the acceptable range and the fish are becoming more active. 

8-24-12

Already put my 40 in this week so I hit the river today to test out my new rod.  Got three in the net and missed another couple on the sink tip.  This is my favorite time of the year to be out on the Truck, the flows are excellent this year and it is shaping up to be an awesome fall.  Here's some yellow gold from today...

SNAP!

I got out on the river this morning before sun up again to try and get some redemption for the other day with Nick.  I tied up some streamers yesterday with crayfish colors in a pattern I borrowed from Andy Burke.  The first fish this morning was a nice brown that lept clean out of the water for my fly.  The second fish was an 18 inch rainbow that tried to wrap himself around my legs.  In an attempt to keep that from happening I tried to horse him away from me and my rod broke.  Luckily Cabelas will take back anything and I got a new rod out of the deal.  I take pretty good care of my rods but this break may well be the product of a bullet head streamer hitting the rod one to many times.  All in all a pretty good hour but the clouds rolled in and stayed until 10am, could have been a really good day.   Some pics from today.

7-31-12 (Early)

  My good buddy Nick charged up to Reno last night to get some much needed time on the water.  We were on the river at 0530 chucking streamer in the dark.  We had several fish chasing and landed one small brown.  Nick did snap some 8 lb. test on a fish he never saw and I had a toad roll my streamer and miss it.  Just about the time it started to warm up he switched over to the indicator and whacked this nice brown on the first cast.  Nice job old buddy, lets do it again soon.

Big Mo'

Had a chance to make it up to Montana and visit my family and do a little fishing.  We fished at my grandpa's cabin on the Missouri River and it was going off.  I haven't fished the mo' much in the last 10 years but it was like the good ol' days.  The dry fly bite was on all day long especially towards the evening, couldn't keep the flies floating there was so much action.  Nothing huge but chalked up some serious numbers and made some good memories fishing with my dad.  That's pops in the second pic putting the moves on a nice brown

Decided to take a trip into the back country this weekend for my birthday.  Took the 14 ft aluminum up and did some trolling with the wife at one of my favorite lakes.  It's one of my favorite because the road is bad therefore keeping the average weekend warrior away.  Right now is a great time to be in the sierras.  It's 95 degrees and miserable back in the shitty and its 72 degrees and windless in the high country.  Here's a couple pics from our outing.  I got 6 in the boat and my wife ended up with 11, out fished again....

4-7-12 Brown

Finally got some fish in the net today, its been a while.  The water is crystal clear right now due to the flows being down.  I landed 7 fish today including this nice brown and had another 5 or so bump and run.  Usually out at pyramid by now but its been so slow out there that fishing the river sounds pretty good.



Pyramid 2-18

Made it out to the lake today and landed 4 nice fish, this one went 8 pounds.  Started out around 9 and it was pretty slow until the wind kicked up.  It must have been blowing upwards of 30 mph and the waves were pushin 3 feet.  Something about shitty weather gets the fish in close to shore.  The fishing is still a bit slow out there but the spawn should start soon.

Touchdown!!

Great day to be on the Truck today, everybody was at home watching the superbowl.  I fished around in town and man was it nice out.  I was able to get this nice Bo' to take a size 18 tungston midge under the indicator.  He took me down stream and across the river before I was able to get him in the net.

Beautiful day on the Truckee

Well the Fly Syndicate and Gilligan inspired me to get out today and fish the Truckee.  The weather was perfect and the water was clear but the fishin was tough.  I got 2 Bo's in the net and 1 white fish in the rocks.  The pic above was a beautiful trout that took a small midge under the indicator.  This was one of the prettiest Bo's I've landed in a while, he had orange tips on top, white tips below and was purple in the middle.  Going out to pyramid tomorrow to give that another shot.  Saw a pic of a cutty that was landed from shore last week that went 19 lbs. Sheeeeeit

Pyramid 12/17/11

Took my first trip of the year out to Pyramid yesterday to try and get some cutthroat.  The weather has been less than ideal on all fronts for both fishing and skiing, unless you fish the desert side of the truckee.  I knew it was going to be tough yesterday when I got to the lake and nobody was fishing.  I fished for about 6 hours and landed 2 nice 20" cutty's.  They fought like hell, I just wish there would have been more of them.  I'm headed back out there next monday so check back for more pics then.... 

Colorado

For the last 10 days I have been in Meeker Colorado elk hunting with a buddy of mine.  The elk hunting was slow but the other two guys I was with bagged 2 nice muley bucks, so it wasn't all bad.  I myself was able to fish a bit out the back door of the cabin we were staying at.  We were 15 feet from the White river where the temps were getting down in the single digits over night.  I would love to catch this river during the season when the fish aren't so cold.  I talked to a local kid that whacked a 12 pound rainbow on the white with a huge rapala, so there are some hogs in there.  Here's a few pics of some fish I whacked, enjoy....

A fall day on the Truckee

It's been a while since the last post, been fishing quite a bit lately just nothing worth posting.  Today was a great fall day on the river.  I ripped streamers for the first 2 hours of the day and had 4 or 5 fish chase it but no takes.  I switched over to the indicator and on the 3rd cast I stuck this nice brown.  The fish fought for about 5 minutes and even leaped once.  As far as I can remember this is the first brown over 20 inches I have stuck on the Truckee river on an indicator, hooked on streamers I guess.