Topaz Lake Fish Report 1-03-08

Topaz Lake - Gardnerville, NV


by Don Quilici
1-3-2008

Diane at the Topaz Lake General Store: We had a record breaking crowd of anglers waiting for sunrise. Anglers came from as far away as California, Texas and Washington, along with lots of locals. One angler said he counted 78 vehicles parked along Topaz Lake Road.

We had 19 tagged fish from $50 to $1000 caught, and gave away over $4000.00 on opening day.

Jim Seaman from Gardnerville caught a $1000.00 fish weighing 2.7 lbs.

Debbie McElhaney from Topaz Lake caught a $1000.00 fish weighing 2 lbs.

Zac Sayed on the North side caught a $250.00 fish weighing 2.7 lbs.

Judy Baxter on the East Shore caught a $250.00 fish weighing 3.4 lbs.

Other anglers who caught tagged fish on opening day were: Jeff Boylan from Wellington, Matt Mavai from Sparks, Mark Kizer from Gardnerville, Dick Horvath from Coleville, Wayne Eichhorst from Gardnerville, Wally Farnham from Wellington, Tim Sullivan Gardenrville, Matthews from Canyon Country California, Augie Esenarro from Carson City, Gene Couste from Carson City and Alan Alltizer from Minden.