TRUCKEE RIVER REPORT 3.13.24

RECAP of the day:

Today we got out at about 9am and it was a bit cold. Yes I looked at the forecast knowing that it wasn’t going to warm up until a bit later but I was itchin to hit the water. As I was expecting the morning offered no success, but it turned into a great scouting mission, after all time on the water is time on the water right. As the early afternoon rolled up we noticed some bug life on the water which was a sigh of relief, you think to yourself “theres got to be a few around starting to eat something”! After runnin around the water and fishing a few different techniques we finally got our first hookup in the tail out of a nice run dropping a heavy nymph to the bottom then letting it swing back up to the surface. I love that feeling when you hook up on the first one of the day, it almost feels like the feeling you get when you caught your first fish ever on the fly. As the afternoon went on a massive march brown hatch popped off and it was on from there, those mayflies were about a 14 and it was just the antidote for these fish to get nice and aggressive. Myself and Jimmy got into some nice pre-spawners in the afternoon making this day one to remember.

CONDITIONS & HIGHLIGHTS:

• Water temp high 40’s

• Air temp 52 degrees, partly cloudy

• CFS 397, slightly stained

  FLIES OF THE DAY:

• Light brown softhackles #14

• TH olive jig #14

• Spanish bullet #16