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Carson River Fishing Report

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

East Fork of the Carson River’s current flow is 112 cfs near Gardnerville. Fishing will pick up as the flows stabilize and the NDOW hatchery truck will be visiting soon which should make a recipe for success.

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Spooner Lake Fishing Report

Spooner Lake

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

Currently iced over. Expect fishing to be good when ice off occurs and fish are hungry after a long winter. A limited amount of winter die off is expected to have occurred in the lake. When conditions permit stocking of rainbow, tiger, and bowcutt trout will commence.

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Truckee River Fishing Report

Truckee Canal

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

The Truckee's current flow in Reno is around 3,000 cfs. This year’s river flows will be substantially higher than they have been in recent memory. Despite the high flows the river has been reported to be fishing well for those willing to try. Brown and rainbow trout exceeding the 20 inch mark are being caught with some regularity . Fly fishermen are having success using

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Chimney Reservoir Fishing Report

Chimney Dam Reservoir

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

Fishing has been slow to fair. As it warms up fishing is expected to improve. Note that all tiger muskie must be released and report the tag # to NDOW.

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Knott Creek Reservoir Fishing Report

Knott Creek Reservoir

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

Opens to fishing to fishing June 10, 2017. Fishing is expected to be good for opener. The usually bead head nymph patterns, scuds, and wholly buggers consistently catch fish at Knott Creek. Dead drifting midge patterns under a strike indicator can also be productive at the right times. Artificial flies and lures only ands single barbless hooks. . Roads

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Onion Valley Reservoir Fishing Report

Onion Valley Reservoir

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

Opens to fishing June 10, 2017. Fishing should be good for opener. Roads are expected to be rough and 4-wheel drive vehicle is recommended.

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Rye Patch Reservoir Fishing Report

Rye Patch Reservoir

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

No recent reports. The reservoir is filling quickly and is at over 50% capacity for the first time in 4 years. As spring temperatures start to warm up fishing should improve for catfish, wiper and walleye.

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Pilot Peak Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Released into Truckee Basin Waters

Truckee River

by CDFW

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) will start releasing Pilot Peak Lahontan cutthroat trout into Truckee area waters to give Sierra Nevada anglers the opportunity to catch some trophy sized trout in a year or two. Last week CDFW received a shipment of cutthroat trout eggs from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) Lahontan National Fish Hatchery Complex in Gardnerville, Nevada. This

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Wilson Common Trout Report

Wilson Common Pond

by CHAD WOODS

Today I stopped by Wilson Commons Pond. NDOW recently stocked the pond so I figured I might as well check it out and see if anyone was catching some Rainbow Trout. I ran into Chris from Carson City, NV. He caught his third trout as I was walking up. Chris caught his limits (3 Rainbow Trout). One fish was caught

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Lahontan Reservoir has been stocked!

Lahontan Reservoir

by CHAD WOODS

The NDOW has done something that they haven't done in a very very long time. In a Facebook post they announced. "With the incredibly wet winter the Nevada Department of Wildlife was able to stock trout at Lahontan Reservoir for the first time in over 20 years. This morning 5,500 rainbow trout were stocked on the Churchill County side of the reservoir. Lahontan fish

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Tahoe Macks

Lake Tahoe

by HANS MOXLEY

Fishing Guide Hans Moxley checked in from Lake Tahoe. The cold temps caused us some issues this morning. We had lines freezing up. However, the fishing was amazing and we ended up with limits of Mackinaw Trout for our group.

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Rye Patch Reservoir Update

Rye Patch Reservoir

by NEVADA STATE PARKS

We've just been informed that more water is going to be released from Rye Patch State Recreation Area. The River Campground below the dam is expected to be partially under water, but will remain open along with the Westside Campground. Please contact the park directly at (775) 538-7321 if you have any further questions.

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Cold Tahoe Macks

Lake Tahoe

by HANS MOXLEY

Fishing Guide Hans Moxely check in this afternoon with a Mackinaw update from Lake Tahoe. Hans said, “We had a COLD North wind this morning....... but the fishing was red HOT!!!! Great catch guys!” If you would like to go fishing at Lake Tahoe give Hans a call at (530) 546-2221. Be sure to tell him the Fish Reports sent you!

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Tahoe Brownie

Lake Tahoe

by MIKE NIELSEN

Fishing Mike Nielsen checked in tonight with an update from Lake Tahoe. Check out this beautiful Brown Trout we caught today!

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Chimney Reservoir Report

Chimney Dam Reservoir

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

Fishing has been slow to fair. As it warms up fishing is expected to improve. Note that all tiger muskie must be released and report the tag # to NDOW.

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Hobart Reservoir Fishing Report

Hobart Reservoir

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

Open May 1 - Closed September 30. Ash Canyon access road will be closed due to extreme runoff damage. Accessing the lake will be difficult during the 2017 season.

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Washoe Lake Fishing Report

Washoe Lake

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

Washoe Lake has benefitted from the historic winter of 2016-2017 and has reached levels not seen in over a decade. Fishing will be very difficult due to the lake being dry for several years. The lake is scheduled to receive channel catfish in 2017 and the process to rebuild the fishery has begun. Lucky anglers may have success on white bass or

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Carson River Fishing Report

Carson River

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

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Spooner Lake Fishing Report

Spooner Lake

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

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Truckee River Fishing Report

Truckee Canal

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

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Knott Creek Reservoir Fishing Report

Knott Creek Reservoir

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

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Tahoe Lakers

Lake Tahoe

by HANS MOXLEY

Fishing Guide Hans Moxley checked in from Hooked Up Sportfishing at Lake Tahoe. Today we had very good fishing for our group. We caught 6 Lake Trout (LIMITS) for our 3 anglers. The weather was fabulous this morning on Lake Tahoe.

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Big Waters and Big Fish

Truckee River

by MATT KOLES

Big water and big fish. Nothing much has changed since last week. Lots of water coming down the pike. This fishing has been good though. I really can’t believe I’d be saying that at these flows. We’ve done well this last week. The fish have been the healthiest I’ve ever seen-no joke. Lots of water means lots of food for our trouts to eat. These fish

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