Initially I was supposed to go to Lake Heenan with my brother in law Lonny. I called my dentist Mike, big fly fisherman, to figure out what I needed for the lake. He let me know that the lake was actually closed on Monday. I had already taken the day off though so I talked to my dentist to figure somewhere else out to go. We landed on the Little Truckee.
Monday morning Lonny, Mike and I hit the river. We all started with a hopper dropper set up. Lonny was the first to catch, about 5 minutes in. He caught a pretty nice size fish and I thought it was going to be a great day. We continued fishing and for an hour or so no one caught anything. I didn’t get to see Lonny pull his second fish in, but it was a really nice fish (the second picture below). After that catch everything went dead. No one caught anything. We headed back to camp and I wanted to give it one more try for a little while. I tied on a black bead head wholly bugger to switch things up from nymphing. After about ten minutes I ran the wholly bugger threw a deep hole and got a huge strike, but nothing to show for it. The fly broke off right at the knot. It been a few days and I am still upset about that one. I want to give the Little Truckee another shot soon.
Report: Both fish we caught with a prince nymph with about a 3 foot dropper.
Monday morning Lonny, Mike and I hit the river. We all started with a hopper dropper set up. Lonny was the first to catch, about 5 minutes in. He caught a pretty nice size fish and I thought it was going to be a great day. We continued fishing and for an hour or so no one caught anything. I didn’t get to see Lonny pull his second fish in, but it was a really nice fish (the second picture below). After that catch everything went dead. No one caught anything. We headed back to camp and I wanted to give it one more try for a little while. I tied on a black bead head wholly bugger to switch things up from nymphing. After about ten minutes I ran the wholly bugger threw a deep hole and got a huge strike, but nothing to show for it. The fly broke off right at the knot. It been a few days and I am still upset about that one. I want to give the Little Truckee another shot soon.
Report: Both fish we caught with a prince nymph with about a 3 foot dropper.
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