Apple Hill

Raquel and I took Maya and Foxy up to Apple Hill for one last trip before Noah came home. We had a great time and the weather was perfect.

Truckee River 10-4-09

I hit the Truckee one last time before Noah came home yesterday. It was a really tough day. The weather was cold, and stayed cold all day long. It even snowed on me. In fact at one point it was almost blizzard conditions. Well, it should be no surprise then that the fishing was pretty slow. In fact for the first four hours, not even a bite. It was after I finally accepted that I was going to get skunked and started heading back to the car that I decided to try one last hole. On my second or third cast, I got a hit, set the hook, and caught the first fish of the day. I have never been so happy to catch a wild 9 inch fish in my life as I was with this one. I caught him on a size 20 orange zebra midge. A couple of casts later, I caught a 16 inch rainbow on a size 6 October caddis.

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