Western Nevada Fish Reports

Warm air temperatures and snow melt over the past week has the river rising and falling about 100-150 CFS daily. The flows are not too bad and the river is fishable but it is a little high. It looks really good but be careful wading. Due to the lack of snowpack and bigger run-off the river is still pretty clean. It does start to get

Right now the river is at 700 cubes or so at Hirschdale, and about 800 in Nevada, good, for this time of year, as run-off could make it much higher on a normal water year. Releases from Boca have just begun. I imagine the river will stay up at least over the 500 range for a while. I have been spending most of my time

Make sure the doors are locked and the 870 is loaded, because when Ryan from The Fly Syndicate is in the boat, no telling what can happen. Ryan and Dad Larry came out for a float yesterday on the Eastside. Ryan did well, but Dad was asleep at the wheel most of the day. Streamers and nymphs getting the job done. It's pretty much came

They're here, our big winged carpenter ants of spring. Fun stuff. All of our finned friends in rivers around Truckee-Tahoe-Western Nevada, lakes, and tribs, will have ants on their minds for the next couple weeks. You can do some prospecting with a single ant pattern, or get one a little bigger like a chernobyl, and hang some droppers off the back. Besides the chernobyl, my

Trout have spread out and are just about everywhere in the river. It's good to fish the soft spots and or secondary holding lies with the dry dropper rig, and nymph up on the deeper stuff. You'd be surprised to see how many fish are in about 2-3 feet of water. B-dubs and march browns are on the lunch menu. Attractor patterns are still working

It's always great to take a few old timers out fishing. Maybe, I should say old schoolers, sorry Ed, and Dwayne. They have usually seen a lot of water, and always have good stories from a lifelong of fishing trips to tell. Sometimes they bring cool rods, like an old Fisher, or Sage LL, with old Hardy's, or Cimmaron's attached. They're patient and courteous, and

Just finished up two days of clinics on the Truckee River. It's been a while since I've done anything like that. I had a great time, and met some great people. We learned my rigs, knots, flies, and did some streamering, on switches and single handed rods, and how I fish them. Got a text today from Shane who was in Saturdays clinic. He went

The Truckee is a bit big and a bit swollen. If you know how to fish in high flows, then you'll do good, if not wait a few weeks. We ain't gonna have to much run-off this year. It's about 900 in the Hirsh, give or take a bit, off color, but not to bad. Personally, how I like it. The usual suspects that

Clients had a weekend of firsts. First fish on a fly rod, first brown trout caught on a fly rod, first rainbow caught on the Truckee, and first monster brown of the season lost on the Cali side. Good times had by all. The river has come up, but is actually clearing as fast as it got muddy. Big fish get hooked in this type

You just have to keep your flies in the water. Flies that are in the water more, catch more fish. If their tangled, dirty, or in a snag, it's hard to do that, catch fish that is. After a while that becomes easier to do. At first it's tough, especially on the Truckee River, but if you stick with it enlightenment will occur, and