Truckee River Fishing - June 16, 2018

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.

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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.