East Walker River, Nevada (part I)

Love fishing in the desert. Saw my first Bighorn Sheep as I was getting my waders on. You can barely see in the upper left a Bighorn Sheep standing on the hillside and acting as a lookout for the group below. There was male with massive horns. I wouldn't have noticed them if I didn't hear them walking down the cliffside. 

Fishing was fantastic as the fish were incredibly aggressive feeding on baetis that seemed to be in every section of the river and hatching all day. It was a mix of about 80% browns and 20% rainbows. The average size fish was fairly small but they were wild and fought well. 

The flows were 75cfs and that seemed perfect for this section of river--I would guess 75-125 cfs would be ideal for the Nevada section. River seems to widen slightly here compared to the lower CA section.

There are large fish on the Nevada side, but they are mainly in the section upstream of where I was at, near the CA border.

I will post part II next week. I got a lot of great footage and decided to break it into two videos. The angle of the sun made for good conditions for filming.