Summer and I went to Reno for a little vacation so I brought the trout rod along and on the way back to<BR> SLO we stopped off at Donner Lake and the Yuba River by big bend. At Donner Lake it was beautiful and<BR> sunny and we fished by the inlet to the lake. Saw some small trout jumping but didn't have any luck fishing<BR> the pins minnow. We talked to a guy who had been trolling and caught some small kokanne as well as a 16"<BR> mackinaw trout. We saw him catch 2 more drifting not far from us with nightcrawlers, so it would seem that<BR> the fishing was pretty good in the lake but we didn't try too hard. Driving West on the 80 we pulled off at<BR> the Yuba river because it just looked really really good. I cast the pins minnow into a slow moving pool a<BR> couple of times, had a nice brown that looked about 16" come up chase it for about 15 feet and finally nail it<BR> only to get off the hook a second later. That was all the action I had there. The river is fast flowing and has a<BR> good amount of water in it. Although it looked fishy, I got the feeling that there weren't a ton of fish in<BR> there and definitely no planters in the area I was in. This was backed up by a man we talked to who said they<BR> planted browns in there 3 years ago but that many had died in El Nino related mud slides.