Douglas County Fish Reports

Yep. cold morning, -2 Fishing was indeed spot on, just had to deal with some lines icing up but these guys handled it just fine.    

Not many anglers venturing out due to weather. The lake has risen considerably over the last couple weeks. NDOW planted the lake with over 4000 lbs of rainbow trout recently. Shore anglers have been having the best luck with Green Powerbait or inflated night crawlers. A few weeks ago while I was at work, my fishing partner Tom Blotter from Minden NV sent me a

On some of these dreary wet days it may not seem like a good fishing season, but if you take a longer term perspective this is close to a perfect winter. We depend on winter to provide the water the fish need to swim in. It is the Sierra snowpack that stores the water for the coming year. The winter of 2018-19 is shaping up to

ATTENTION ANGLERS: All fishing ponds at Mason Valley Wildlife Management Area are covered with ice for the opening this weekend. There is not much, if any, open water. The ice is thin and dangerous. Instead, we recommend you head to Topaz Lake (photographed below). We stocked it with 6,520 rainbow trout last week, and 4,365 rainbows this week! Enjoy!

Baby it's COLD outside....... Fishing was fantastic however !!! Great fun with you guys, thanks so much

Week 5 fishing derby was a little slow despite the good weather.  We have had 116 2lbs and over turned in so far.  Our biggest fish of the week was Bob Brister of Topaz Ranch Estates with a 9lb 4.8oz 26in rainbow.  2nd Place was Jackie Davis with a 7lb 6.3 27in rainbow.  We have been hearing that shore fishing is doing better then boat

On Monday, went out solo and trolled for a few hours. Landed 5 total, 4 were small stockers and 1 was about 1.5 pounds.  Trolled the north side of the lake with rapalas.  Water temp was 42.9 degrees and water was glass.  Spoke to anglers at the ramp and they worked the south side trolling nightcralwers behind flashers.  They picked up what looked like an

Picture perfect day for catching your first ever Mackinaw!

Nice looking fish guys !!!! Beautiful day on the water, hope to see you guys again

Anthony fished Topaz again Sunday the 20th. It was windy and raining. Good chop on the water. Trolled for about 3 hours. Landed 5 and missed 3. All came on Rapala (3ft-5ft) down 3 on a brown trout pattern and 2 on shad colored.

Beautiful day out today, between the storms............ Fishing should of been a little better.. landed four lost four We had FUN !!!

First time fishing Topaz, caught two and missed one.  All trolling with Rapalas. Just moved to the area and looking forward to fishing Topaz more.

Hello fellow anglers, Fishing at Topaz Lake is off to a good start for 2019. The weather cooperated, with the only drawback was that the morning temperature on January 1st was 9 degrees at 6:30 am. But warmed up to a nice 38 for a high.  There were many boats on the lake and most drove respectful of fellow trollers.  You can tell some were

We had a successful opener with 33 fish over 2lbs turned in all averaging around 3-4lbs and had a total of 61 fish turned in for week 1.  There was a total of 12 tagged fish turned in the 1st day and 17 tags total for the week.  Our biggest fish for the week was a 9lb 7.7oz 24 1/2 in rainbow caught by Aaron Talhelm

Another picture perfect day out there today, the calm before the storm coming I guess. Father and son got the job done on the lake today. Fishing was great!  

Fishing was just a bit off today,  landed 5 and lost one but it took some doing. Beautiful day out there!  

We’re out at Topaz Lake this morning in northwest NV for the Fishing Derby!  Nice rainbows all around. Topaz is on the CA/NV border.  It’s a fun spot in the winter or summer, and the fishing is on point.  Come see for yourself!

Hello fellow anglers, I hope Santa was good to you.  We are coming up with in a few days of the Topaz opener, which is January 1,2019.  The water level is coming up, but still down from last years opener.  A couple new things this year.  First and most important, Where else can you get paid to go fishing.  The Topaz Lodge annual fishing derby

Now that's some great looking fish! The little guy gets the big fish for the day