The Little Tanner River

Well, they are now going to have to re-name the Little Truckee river to the Little Tanner river after Tanner catching this big Brown. My Dad and I met up with Tanner and uncle Dennis over the Thanksgiving holiday up at the Truckee and Little Truckee rivers. The four of us started off on the main Truckee. My Dad and I did really well, both of us catching about 15. My Dad might have caught a few more than that. But Tanner was struggling quite a bit with around 5 to 7 fish. However, Tanner's luck changed once we hit the Little Truckee. He immediately caught this really nice Brown and then went on to have four or five more hook-ups. The rest of us could not even manage to get a bite. This was the best that I have ever seen Tanner fish. Man, was he on! I was really happy for him because he has been talking for months about catching a monster brown and he finally did it. Great job Tanner!

Been doing a lot of fishing and a lot of hiking lately

Well it's been a while since my last post. Not much has changed. Ive been hiking about once a week and fishing about once a week. The fishing has been good. Tanner and I are still catching lots of fish, nothing huge for a while though. The water on the Truckee river is getting low and we may have made our last trip of the year up their. The hiking has been great. About three weeks ago, we hiked up Thunder Mountain. The hike is located near Kirkwood and it is literally up a mountain. The view was awesome. Here are a few photos of the hike.

Tanner nearly falls off the mountain.

Enjoying lunch at the summit.

Maya loves to drink from the hydration pack.

Big trout on the Truckee

In the last week I have had really bad luck on the Truckee and really good luck. Tanner and I went fishing a few days ago and not five minutes after reaching the river, my fly rod broke. I was really disapointed. I have had that rod for about 10 years and I was really attached to it. Luckily I kept a back-up rod in the car, however, after just two hours and two small fish, Raquel called me and said that she was really sick. Tanner and I rushed home to make sure that she was ok. She took a couple of days off and is feeling good again.
Anxious to erase that horrible day from my memory, I headed up to the Truckee by myself. For the first three hours, it could not have been better. I caught several nice fish. Then, at about 11:30, I detected a very subtle hit, not sure if it was a fish or just a slight bump on a rock. I set the hook just to make sure, and then it started pulling. It was a heavy fish. I knew that it was big from the way that it was fighting, but would have never guessed that it was as big as it was. After about a 10 minute battle I landed the biggest trout of the season, somewhere between 22 and 24 inches. However, bad luck also was with me today. Right after the camera took the photo of me and the fish from the self-timer, a gust of wind came along and pushed my camera into the river, which ruined the camera. I can't complain though, I had an incredible time!

Video of Tanner catching a trout on the Truckee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2BwL9n2Gkg

The fishing just gets better for Tanner and I

We had yet another great day on the Truckee river. Tanner broke out of a tough slump, and just slayed them. The last three or four times that we had been fishing, Tanner had a hard time catching any fish. All that changed last weekend when Tanner caught 20-30 fish. Together, we caught about 60 quality wild trout. We even had two double hook-ups which is pretty rare.



Tanner with the first nice fish on his new fly rod.




A double hook-up! My fish is on the left and Tanner's is on the right.

Dad and I score big on the Truckee

Well, it continues to be an awesome 2008 fishing season. I took my Dad to the Truckee last weekend to try to get some wild trout. What a day! We ripped'em real good. We caught so many big beautiful rainbow trout that we decided to call it a day after just 3 1/2 hours. My Dad did especially well, just about everytime I looked at him, he had a fish on. The hot fly today for my Dad was a Prince nymph, and for me, a San Juan worm and a black WD-40 midge.




Dad with a really fat 16 inch wild rainbow.


Check out the San Juan worm hanging out of its mouth.


Is there a more beautiful fish than a wild rainbow trout?


Can someone please get me a bigger net!?

Labor Day Weekend

We had a great Labor Day weekend. It started friday night with a Rivercats game with Jamie and Shannon. Then on Saturday we took Maya to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and then took a drive down the coast to sight see and hike. We found a great spot just south of Big Sur with a nice beach and a waterfall. On Monday, I went fishing with my Dad but I will talk about that in my next post.


Maya enjoying the ball game with her uncle Jamie and aunt Shannon.


Maya at the aquarium.


Foxy enjoying the view from a point along highway 1.