Douglas County Fish Reports

South Shore: Gene St. Denis: I've been fishing at Camp Richardson and Ski Run Shelf. Trolling at 45-60 feet at Camp Rich and then going deeper to 150-240 at Ski Run, with silver Herring Dodger flasher blades and live minnows. The Macks have been running up to 5-6 pounds.

East Shore: Gene St. Denis: Toplining Rapala. Rebel or A/C lures in 15-25 feet of water for rainbows, Mackinaw and browns at Deadman's Point, Logal Shoals and Sand Harbor.

Chuck Fields at the Topaz Lake Marina (775-266-3550) reported: Not much going on. Not a lot of people out here. Some boats yesterday (Sunday) caught their limits in two hours. The fish were running about 1.25 pounds. They were trolling about 200 feet off shore with flashers and nightcrawlers on the west side in front of the homes. The weather was windy but did not

Gene St. Denis of Blue Ribbon Charters and Tahoe Trophy Trout at South Lake Tahoe, Calif. (530-544-6552): The fishing has been tough, from slow to good, dependent on the day. We are getting 0-5 Macks per trip, and they are in the 2-14 pound range. We have been trolling at all levels from 50 feet deep down to the bottom at 350 feet. I've been

South Shore: Gene St. Denis: I've been fishing at Camp Richardson and Ski Run Shelf. Trolling at 45-60 feet at Camp Rich and then going deeper to 150-240 at Ski Run, with silver Herring Dodger flasher blades and live minnows.

East Shore: Gene St. Denis: Toplining is dead slow to good, dependent on the day. I'm toplining Rapala. Rebel or A/C lures in 15-25 feet of water for rainbows, Mackinaw and browns at Deadman's Point, Logal Shoals and Sand Harbor. Getting 0 to 4 fish per trip. The shore fishermen at Cave Rock are catching 0-4 rainbows with an occasional small Mack. ?Į

Chuck Fields at the Topaz Lake Marina (775-266-3550) reported: Not a lot of people out here since the Topaz Lodge burned, because there is no place to eat. There have been some limits caught, but most of them are out of boats, trolling with nightcrawlers. The boats are spending an entire day on the lake to catch a limit. One boat had 10 fish with

LAKE TAHOE - North Shore: Gene St. Denis of Blue Ribbon Charters and Tahoe Trophy Trout at South Lake Tahoe, Calif. (530-544-6552): Fishing has been very slow. The bite is non-existent to slightly good, at best. Last week, on a day by day basis, we caught 5 Macks, we got skunked, we got 2, we got skunked, we got 3, we got 4, we got

LAKE TAHOE - South Shore: Gene St. Denis: Fishing has been slow, slow, slow. I've been trolling at Ski Run Shelf at 150-280 feet with silver Herring Dodger flasher blades and live minnows. The jiggers are jigging in water 160 feet deep with Crippled Herring Jigs, tipped with a live minnow.

LAKE TAHOE - East Shore: Gene St. Denis: I'm toplining Rapala lures in 15-25 feet of water and it has been slow for rainbows, Macks and browns at Deadman's Point, Logal Shoals and Sand Harbor. I caught 5 fish on Monday with the largest being a 4-pound brown.

TOPAZ LAKE: Chuck Fields at the Topaz Lake Marina (775-266-3550) reported: Yesterday (Monday), J. P. Williams caught a 4.2 pound rainbow while trolling the southwest side with a perch-colored Rapala lure. Also, Tom Brown caught a 4 pound rainbow while trolling the north end with a black/silver Rapala lure. They have been catching lots of limits on Rapalas on the west side and north and

TOPAZ LAKE: Diane at the Topaz Lake General Store: Tim Denver caught a 5.8 pound rainbow with a $100 tag. In addition, Wes Adams caught a 5.2 pound rainbow, Doug Douglas had a 4.9 pound rainbow and William Critser had a 3.4 pound rainbow.