First 201520 Courtesy of Deckers

Behind multiple trips on the blog! Have a few really good trips to write up so I figured I better get at it. This trip was the first trip of 2015.

Ben had his son Andrew in town for the Holidays and we decided to drive up to Deckers. We got up there and rigged up and as soon as we were rigged up we remembered that Andrew didn't have a license...... So we decided that Ben and I would fish for a half hour or so and we'd go hit Rainbow Falls since you don't need a license there.

There is a run I've seen many times up at Deckers and it normally has one or two bubbas in it. Not the case this day. I'm sure it has a name but it's just on the other side of the big hill you drive over if you pass the first parking pull off. Its a nice slow bend up against a rock face. The head of the bend has a perfect riffle into a drop off. There are two currents that meet up at the drop off and it is absolutely gorgeous.When we first parked there were a few guys fishing the run but by the time we were rigged up and realized Andrew didn't have a license they were gone. I think that had a big part in the, "fish for half hour since we're here" plan.

I actually started towards the tail end of the bend and worked my way up. It took me twenty minutes to get to the head of the run and really notice how nice the drop off was. I took two casts and WHAM! Something big hit and took off like a bat out of hell! It wasn't on very long. Maybe five seconds. I never saw the fish. I knew it was a good fish though and since it broke me off and since I'm writing this from memory that has sat for a month and a half I'll call it a good thirty inches.... easy.

Fast forward a week and we were back at Deckers looking for redemption. Same run, same rig, same flies, same cast. It only took a few casts and I was hooked up again. Nothing huge but a really nice eighteen inch rainbow. I knew there were bigger fish on that drop off...

After a quick pic I made the same cast and WHAM! This time I was ready. Line was on the real before I made the cast. Good thing too since this fish did the exact same thing it did a week ago. I really think it could be the same fish. This time I knew its game plan though and was ready for the long run against the far rock face. After about a five minute fight Ben made the net scoop and I had my redemption. A really nice twenty inch rainbow to bring in 2015. Going to be a good year!