hey oneweight just so you know the lil truckee is fishing great right now, i have gone 3 times in the last month, and have done great,

first time out was 2 weeks before memorial day (more for a scouting that anything else but i used wooly buggers for most of the day and did pretty well being my first time out, hook 7 and landed 2, one that i hooked broke my 3x tippet in one shake of its head, it was a nice size brown too. i had just tied up a size 8 wooly bugger and my first cast with it this fish came up from the flat 4ft section onto the tail out and hammered it, the wake was huge, i fought the fish for only a few seconds but i got a great look at it and it was about a 20" brown, as soon as i got the look thats when the ferosious head shake came into play and broke me off like i was nothing.

i then went and fished it memorial day, (only had a few hours due to camping with the gf hence the scouting trip 2 weeks back) well got my few hours in and had a blast as well. glo bug or glo bead with a pink san juan was the ticket that day. i have a few pics from that day i fished in the album. nothing to big that day, mostley 14-16"ers hooked 10 landed 5, had to leave early due to the rain but had fun either way.

i also went up yesterday with the gf for the day. tried to get her to fly fish but she wasnt having it. it will take time with this one but in due time ill have her handling that fly rod like its...... well anyways, we got there early to my fav spot as usual, (the only spot that i have been fishing the last few times out) hoping that i can get the gf on some fish as well with either small panthers or maybe some flies (this spot holds a ton of fish, they stack up at the bottom of the tail out just waiting for food to come their way, great location and great honey hole), she wasnt having any luck but i sure was, the go to yesterday was size 12-14 green drake with a super super small glo bug trailer, this was the meal ticket, took me a while to figure it out but it finally paid off. first fish was a lil guy that took my green drake about 14"s with great color, tips of the tails in full white, and just beautiful, the gf couldnt believe it, she is used to planters so a wild native fish she has never seen. i hooked a few more right after that fish all about the same size 14-15"s landed one but lost 3, the headshakes from lil truckee bows and browns are awsome.   about 20 mins after with no fish, i decided to sit back and just watch. and within 5 mins i noticed some subsurfice feeding, and a good amount of fish activity on the other side of this honey spot where its its about 1ft deep drops of to a shelf thats about 4ft then it goes deep, these fish were holding on this shelf and periodicly moving up into the shallow water then back down onto the shelf, what a site. so i tried working it from the side i was on with no luck, hard to get a good drift, i tried swinging a few flys and streamers as well, but it was just a difficult presentation with so much line out. so worked my way around to the other side. turned over a few rocks and there wasnt much, a green drake here a caddis pupah there, stuck with the green drake and a small glo bug combo. got myself situated for a perfect high stick drift, or even a swing if needed, and first cast i got hammered, the fish put up a great fight, man i love the lil truckee, finally got it to hand was a nice 15"er, went back to that spot a few cast later another fish on, same thing, nice fight nice head shakes got it to hand and was a nice 16"er, this went one for a good hour ( a few more landed and a few more lost) when i look over and i see the gf playing tetris on her phone, i told the gf "a few more cast dear" she said ok, and the next cast was the cast of my life time (the final cast) everything was in slow motion for some reason, my casting my drift eveyerthing and i couldnt figure out why, was i having a sugar attack, was i having heat stroke, nope that wasnt it, at the end of the drift my line took off, i had to loosen my drag quickly to make sure i keep this beast on, it left a wake like i would see if i am swinging for steelhead, it was crazy, it took off like a supercharged mack stuck, with almost 3/4 of my fly line out this fish bolted out of the water a good 3ft, this was a big fish, and very bright (defintly a healthy fish, i had my hands full) a nice putah pig size fish, fat and juicy. (i have heard of some nice fish being caught from the 16-20" range and this one was definitly in that category).... so trying not to put my 5 and 6x tippet to the stress point and knowing that i have hooked 3 fish on the same set up without retying i was really worried, i already lost a nice fish earlier because i never retied, so i had to work this one just a lil bit more. between the headshakes and the rocket ship runs i was sure i would never get this fish to hand, but sure enough after this fish worked me from one side of the river to the other and back again i finally got it to hand. the gf didnt know what to do, she has never seen such a beautiful, big, fat fish ever, (well atleast in person, she has seen some in my pics) so she whipped out the digital once again and took a few nice pics of me and the fish, i gave it a kiss and let her go for another day. final taly for the day hooked 13 landed 9. as far as the size of that fish of the day a respectable 18 1/2-19"s, with some shoulders to boot too.

i will have pics up soon, would have them up but got home late and was to tired to even think about uploading pics.


hey one weight pm me and let me know if you end up going.