Good Times Are Coming

The river here in Nevada seems to always get a lot more popular towards early fall, to be expected though.  When the summer days start to cool, big fish start moving around and fall (in my opinion) is the best opportunity you will have to land that big brown you have been dreaming about.  In the past few weeks there have been numerous big browns landed, I've seen two at about the 30" mark and plenty more two footers.  The key to this time of the year is to know your runs.  Deep pools hold fish, but they are impossible to get a perfect drift.  Fish the dark riffles that are 5-6 ft deep, that way your drift can properly be presented.  I caught this guy in a 5 ft pool under a riffle on a stonefly, the same stone that has been picking up big fish for me all year.  Truckee river trout LOVE stoneflies.

When I hooked this guy I fought him in a pool of slow water before he decided to run me down river through water that I would never wade through on my own.  It was a whitewater boulder field with waste to chest deep pockets that sucked me in like black holes, then spit me into large greased up boulders as if I was a pinball.  Using the current, the fish took me into my backing leaving me no option but to basically swim down river after him.  Many people say that browns don't fight that hard and bows are more fun to catch, but this was the best fight of my life.  It took me a handful of minutes to get him into the heavily covered shore and before my buddy could make it there with the net.  What an awesome fight!  Like I said, there are some awesome fish to be had in the river right now, and as it cools off more, the browns will be looking to spawn and the fishing is going to explode!

After I landed this big guy we fished some pocket water for a little bit.  Rumor has it that slower pocket water is the place to yard out some trophies right now but it is very technical to fish.  My buddy Dave pulled out this nice bow just behind a boulder in the river.

Thanks for reading and I hope to see you out there!