Truckee River - Takin it all in

This was more of a recon trip today. The Truckee was pumpin, even above Prosser its still pretty high, but fishable.

Ants were out today.
I gotta be quicker on the set, the takes are short in this fast water...I missed a couple today.Prosser was pumpin too.Thought I could get out on the upper LT today...damn, its over its banks here, forget that. It looks like the big Truckee.Along 89 the Truckee wasn't blown out, but unfortunately, its too low @ 70cfs. All the fish were stacked up at Fanny Bridge. I just had to test out my new camera in 1080p and 60fps. If you have the bandwidth, watch it in 720p or 1080p. I know its Fanny, but I get pumped knowing these big fish spread out in the upper Truckee when they increase the flows. Today, no rainbows, only browns, but there were about 25 of them! I bet the smallest ones are 22" and they go up from there!

Fish's Eye View

Every wonder what's in the water you're casting at? I decided to put the rod down and find out last summer so I floated a few miles of the Truckee above the town of Truckee. Filming trout underwater in a freezing, turbid river is a bit more challenging than I first thought. Anyhow, here is some footage of the experiment, I got about a dozen fish on film, but I only included 4 of the big boys. One was a real toad, the footage doesn't do it justice, but I'd put it at over 8lbs, possibly 10lbs. I missed footage of several large fish which I spotted while rowing my pontoon boat, but didn't have time to stop, gear up and jump in before they vanished. Stay tuned, I plan to do some more posts like this one when it warms up. PS: none of these fish were filmed @ Fanny Bridge, though I did jump in there and try to get a monster brown on film, the discharge was 300cfs and didn't permit me to get close enough to film (the fish make swimming against that current look easy).