Recent content by Travis Bille

I call this one “the Meterman”

I had a patient from the Hoopa reservation in Northern California on the Trinity River. She gave me a jar of smoked lamprey. It was absolutely fantastic. My daughter was 10 at the time. I called her over and had her try some "smoked salmon". Her eyes lit up and she said it was the best thing...

It’s hard to tell, but this is a balance leech. Has anyone ever tried tying one with rabbit strips? Does it work?

Thanks! This is probably the first skwala I've seen in person and I wasn't aware that the Rogue had a population of them. Cool!

I was fishing the Holy Water stretch about a week ago and this letter feller floated past me. Too small and early to be a salmon fly or golden stone, but unfamiliar with the other stonefly species in the river

I caught a pretty dang big one on the Yak one time on a purple Chubby Chernobyl. I also caught two in Baum Lake (a small Hat Creek impoundment) at dusk. I didn't realize there were any in there, I'd never heard of them being caught, but they are native to the Sacramento River watershed

No kidding. I knew a guy in Tacoma who got killed that exact same way about a decade ago

I call this one the Meterman