I’ve always thought it would be cool to build a time machine that doubled as a boat…with it I sure could take some killer fishing trips that don’t exist in the present day. How fun would it be to head over to the Truckee River back in the 1700′s, when giant Lohantan cutthroat trout were swimming upstream out of Pyramid Lake to spawn? Forty-pound trout in a small river…awesome! Of course, I’d also have to fish the North Fork American River around Yankee Jim’s for steelies before all the dams and hydraulic mining messed things up and then I’d zip over to Salmon Falls on the South Fork and watch the bazillions of kings trying to leap upstream. Then, I’d roll the dials of my machine to February 1703 and head for the McCloud River above present-day Lake Shasta. In those days, you could have fished this small stream for chrome winter-run chinook salmon and steelhead at the same time. Before I came back to 2001… if I ever came back…I’d jam down to the Bay and catch sturgeon and halibut until my arms fell off.
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