Spent an absolutely stunning October day fishing with my long time scouting partner Jeff on the Lower Sac.  We drifted a lower drift to avoid the crowds and basically had the river to ourselves excpet for a few salmon fishing boats.  Fishing was a little slow in the morning, but we found a steady pace of fish is some favorite spots.  Our fish came on a mix of egg patterns and nymphs. We both would have been happy if that was the entire fishing report, but as luck (and a little skill) would have it, we ran into a pretty special fish.  At first both of us thought we may have run into a salmon, but after about a 20 minute fight we landed a beautiful, wild 27" fish.  We spent the rest of the float just reflecting on the battle and the prize.  Its a beautiful time of year to fish Northern California.  Lets go fishing everyone!!!!