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I thought I'd escape the valley heat and smoke and head to higher ground. That didn't help. It was marginally cooler, but the smoke from the Foresthill and Blue Canyon fires was blown right over the pass and filled the Tahoe/Truckee basins...gasp. To add insult to injury, I-80 construction is in full swing with miles of single-lane traffic moving at 10 mph behind big rigs. But I made it up there, and I was determined to fish.
This was the good part. Upon earlier advice here, and being quite partial to dryfly fishing, I fished from 5:00 until about 8:00. Good timing, because the caddis were out and sporadically falling victim to the trout. I managed 6 hook-ups and several missed grabs on a #14 EH Caddis, landing only 3, mostly hefty 14"ers. Most were caught in a short span about 7:00. And this was all in the popular area off of Glenshire Rd. After years of futility, I'm finally having some success on that river--maybe I am learning a thing or two.
Hope the smoke clears next week, because I'd like to try it again, or maybe the LT, too. Can't do much about Caltrans, though.
Cheers,
El Rey
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