East Carson River (middle section) - July 2018

Strange day fishing the East Carson in the middle section. The middle is from Hangman's bridge near Markleeville, CA to the next bridge upstream from there. Normally this section is heavily stocked, or at least in the section I was fishing just upstream from Hangman's. Except for one wild rainbow, all I caught were what I think were Paiute Cutthroat or maybe Lahontan Cutthroat which were probably hatchery fingerlings from earlier this spring.

Only fished here for about 2 hours. I was Euro nymphing and caught almost all the fish on a pattern I haven't used in ages--the Rainbow Warrior. It was good practice for detecting light takes and the scenery was amazing.

The one rainbow for the day. Might have been a hatchery that had been in the river for a while or was wild. Put up a great fight for its size.

If they put some catch and release regulations in this section and continue to plant Paiute or Lahontan Cutthroat, that would be awesome and I would be greatly anticipating fishing this section next year if that is the case. Not sure what is going on in this part of the river though as I haven't fished it in years.

I tried to go further upstream to fish near the second bridge but there was some bike race going on and they had the road closed. I ended up heading to the wild trout section below Hangman's and will post that video next week. Decent fishing down there but I don't know if it was worth the hike to get in there. Almost got lost in the woods as well as there was no real trail down there from the airport. Ran into some random dude that seemed lost and later thunderstorms came in.. just an all around strange day.