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Sunday, 12 December 2010, 3 PM, Pacific Grove, California: Blue skies, 64 degrees Fahrenheit, gentle breeze.
It was good to be home.
Wednesday, 8 December 2010, 8: 30 AM, Douglas City California: Overcast, fog, gentle rain, 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
It was good to be steelheading in weather warmer than freezing. It stayed about 40 degrees the whole time we floated the Trinity River
from Indian Creek to Dutton Creek, taking out right at 5 PM, in the heavy dusk and light rain. Ned and I were floating with guide Gabe
Duran out of Shasta Trout, who grew up local, went to college and learned to be a trout bum and guide in Montana, and came back to
California so he could guide all year long. It had been raining in the Trinity drainage for a couple of days or more, and the river was up,
and slightly colored, but looked very fishable. A lot we knew.
Gabe tried many different combinations of eggs and bugs and weights and depths, but I believe we never touched an adult steelhead all day.
Ned and I each got one small 'half pounder' and Ned got a modest brown trout, but there were no adults hooked.
We did see one roll, very early in the day, but that was it.
Thursday, 9 December 8 AM at Steel Bridge;
Cloudy, foggy, threatening to rain, but not actually raining, just sort of a light Irish mist.
Again on the Trinity, we floated to Goalpost, taking out a minute or two before 5. It was a minute or two less dark but still very dusky.
Again we had a G rated day - no adult content. Ned was 3 fish for 3 hookups on quarter pounders, and I was 1 for 1. It is remotely
possible that Ned may have hooked an adult and lost it immediately when his rod tip hit an overhanging branch in the middle of his hookset.
We'll never know.
This White screen of death really sux, Continued.....
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