Western Nevada Fish Reports

A weekend of almost non stop rain here on the Truckee River. The river came up to well over 900 cubes here in the Hirsch, but once again is back in the mid-800’s. Still pretty big, but it should drop more this week after releases from Donner Lake come down. The weather will clear and should be a nice week to fish up here. We’re still

The annual Ca trout opener was this last weekend, hordes of people that don’t realize the river is open year round, braving the cold and the wind, wondering why the fish are just not that active. Remember, it usually snows or rains on the opener. Does the same on Memorial Day weekend too, so be ready. I’m sure most people got skunked. If you fish the

The Truckee River is in great shape, fishing well, and only getting better as we are getting closer to summer. Flows are down to around 600 cfs here in the Hirsch. Friends, that is perfect. Flows have dropped out of Donner and Prosser Res’s. There is nothing coming out of Boca yet. Flows will come back up with some warm weather. Remember, there’s still a shit

Guide Mike Neilsen checked in from Tahoe Topliners out of South Lake Tahoe, CA. Today we harvested some Browns as we normally practice catch and release with them. Great looking meat, good fun and got in before the big part of storm hit us! Nothing huge today but nice action overall, good job team Norton!

Jeff took the day off to hit Pyramid (thanks for sharing your day with us, it's appreciated!) "Got a dozen today and polar opposite of last week, all but one under an indicator on a red midge. The big boy took a black bead head bugger. Ironically it was a very, very slow morning. The wind and waves never arrived until about 10 a.m. and

The streamer clinic for May 14th, and 15th is SOLD OUT.  I am putting on 2 more separate clinics, June 4th, and 5th. June 4th is almost full. I will still do a clinic where we will do a little bit of everything, “bottoms up,”or maybe just a dry fly clinic out on the LT this summer, we’ll see. Very warm this week up in the

Guide Mike Nielsen checked with a Lake Tahoe report from South Lake Tahoe, CA. Mike said in a FaceBook post, "Been mixed bags most days. Mostly catch n release on browns n bows. Harvest of lakers!"

Check out this great video report about spawning Lahontan Cutts at Pyramid!

Guide Mike Nielsen checked in from South Lake Tahoe, CA this evening. Mike said, "Well the wind finally subsided enough to fish again but water temps dropped 5 to 7 degrees which slowed the bite down so far today, but we still have time to find a big one!"