wished i could have made it up there on sunday with the boys, but couldnt miss out spending time with the gf at a football game. good thing the game wasnt boring.
anyways got a lil info from rich and figured y not break in the new boots and the new rod on the yuba. glad i did.
so djwatts and myself got up but o crack o dawn to get to the yuba early. cant believe there was already 2 cars already under the bridge and 3 on the other side. crazy people dont they have jobs. so we decided to fish the bridge for a lil bit then move upstream. i hooked up right off the bat with a nice 13"er. it felt pretty good on the new rod. and the boots man do they grip well. so worked out way up around the bend to where u can cross, wanted to fish the inside of the run but 2 people were fishing it already. so worked the seam on the east side of the river (also could be the south side which ever way u look at it). finally hooked into a nice fatty just under 20"s where the 3 islands come together, and it took a good amount of line, but finally got it all bank and to the net. thanks paul for running up the river to land that fish for me. its was a great fight, and the new rod took it well. from there we worked up a little farther, say 2 steelhead spawning which was very nice to see. then worked back down river. fished a few spots below some old salmon redds, thats where paul hooked into a nice healthy 14 incher, but just couldnt keep it on. after that went down stream a lil father and fished a run that is usually stacked with salmon and its about 2-300 yrds long. there are still a few salmon spawning, couple cheesed up and a few chrome ones. but no fish behind them. then we moved back up to the bridge and the fishing turned on. didnt have to much time left to fish i did a quick down one side up the other, and withing about 45 mins i hooked 4 and landed 4. on 8" dink the others the usual 16-18"ers. so all in all a great day on the river, and paul gettin some more experience with his fly fishing game.
a few pics from the day
-- Edited by brian clemens on Wednesday 30th of December 2009 01:35:54 PM
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