Finally fished a small section of the river I haven't tried out before in the canyon. Tough walk down into it, but there was some very nice water.

There were quite a few mayflies flying in the air in the morning, but no rises. I went with old faithful, the #10 Rubber Legs nymph on the dropper, and ended switching a few times the point fly, but all fish were caught on the rubber legs. 

On one of my first few casts, I hooked into a nice fish and lost it fairly quickly on a very long run, but didn't get a bite on the that same run after working it pretty good.

Caught a small rainbow holding behind a large piece of metal mid-river.

The rest of the day was ok fishing. I think it would have been a little better had I gotten to the river much earlier than I did. I think I missed a major hatch.

Lost a huge fish. It is going to haunt me for some time.... It was at the head of a very large and deep hole. Large fish that inhabit these type of spots, will from time to time come to the top of the entrance of the pool to feed on nymphs. Otherwise they generally stay very deep in the pool and hunt other fish at night. I got a good look at the brown as it thrashed for a few seconds before coming off - it had to have been around 5lbs! I didn't have a good hook set and I am kicking myself for not taking the indicator off and tight lining that small section. I think I would have had him if I did so. That is what makes fishing the Truckee so exciting--you never know when a huge fish will strike.

The "canyon" section of the river stretches between Hirschdale, CA to Verdi, NV. There are special regulations in place and the access into the canyon is tough for poachers and this area gets tons of pressure by fly fisherman, which makes it even harder for poachers. The result is good fishing, but wily fish that are not easy to catch.

Got this 20-21" brown in "New Zealand" type water that most fishermen skip. In New Zealand you would sight fish to large brown trout in ultra clear water, and it seemed that they held mainly in odd shallow spots in the river--in places where most people would wade right into. although I didn't have a tape measure, my elbow to finger tips is 18", and this fish extended beyond both my elbow and finger tips by about 1-2" on each end. The take was extremely subtle as you can see in the video.

Fish were very active today! Only one brown, the rest were rainbows. It was about 50/50 between the #10 Rubber Legs on the dropper and the #14 GTI Caddis on the point. I started out euro nymphing with a 15' leader/sighter, but decided the water was too big and I wasn't quite in the mood to tight line, so I put on an indicator below the sighter, using the same Euro leader. 

~18-19" rainbow that put up a heck of a fight.

Finished the day at a strange spot that feels haunted and where I occasionally will hear strange noise and feel as if someone is watching me. Ghosts of the Donner Party? It seems there was a long time ago, a house or maybe hotel there, as there is an old forgotten road and an stone wall in the woods along the riverbank. There is even fallen utilities poles that some long ago storm blew down. Never caught any fish in that small section either--it seems the fish are scared of that spot as well, and stay away.