Nevada

Dave is part owner in a Fly Fishing shop and guide service. He and his partner and one of his guides took me fishing in Pyramid Lake which is about an hour north of Reno on the Indian Reservation named after the lake. The world record Cutthroat Trout came out of this lake and it is the Lahanton. The Lahanton does not exist anywhere in the world except in this lake and a couple other lakes in Nevada and eastern Oregon.

We waded off shore as far as we could and cast weight forward line, which carries the fly out quite far. There were several people fishing just like us, but a couple of people took an advantage. They waded out on their tiptoes and set up a stepladder, the kind with a handle on the top. They fished from the top step of the ladder with the handle protruding out of the water, looking a bit humorous. The advantage is that they were further out in the water not worrying about waves going over the tops of their waders.

I caught my fish without a stepladder, as did everyone else on our team.