Western Nevada Fish Reports

The flows on the Truckee are perfect. Access is not an issue right now and the fishing has been pretty good. Fish are holding in slower deeper pools. Baetis and Midges have been hatching sporadically and there have also been a few Stonefly sightings. The best days for bugs are the cloudy ones. The best day to fish is whenever you can get out there.

One beer can change the outlook on everything. After refusing a beer with brother's Bryan and Jesse this morning, I finally gave into the peer pressure. Then of course, Truckee local, Bryan in the main photo, landed his biggest rainbow to date on the Truckee River. Good times with good dudes. Yesterday, Michael from S.F. caught his first fish on a fly rod. Two firsts,

Usually, when the river gets a good flush, then comes back down, which it did this last week, the fishing is "on". However, I think the Trouts got a little freaked out, and unstable flows this week on the Truckee River didn't help. Bob and his boy Ken came back up and fished with me, and though we didn't exactly crush it, we put some

We finally have some snow in the hills. We got about 6" inches here in the Hirsch, but a good dumping above 7,500 feet. The Truckee River came up to about 1,500 cubes during the storms, but she's come back down, and this week will be good with the mild weather forecasted. Access is always an issue when it snow's on the Cali side. Up

Good Afternoon to all This last week was slow again. The lake is like a ghost town. There are hardly any fisherman on the lake all week. And the winners are Shawn Lenz in the photo above from Auburn CA with 3.9 lbs and 21  ? inches for first place and Johnny DeRossett in photo #1 with 2.10lbs and 19  ? inches.

Stream flows on the Truckee have been very consistent. Lack of snow has limited any run-off on warm days. The fishing has been fairly good for January and we have even seen some fish rising to Baetis and Midges on the surface on warmer afternoons. The water is really clear and easy to wade right now. It is important to take a little more stealthy

We finally have the jet stream lined up, and storm's on the way for Tahoe. It looks like all of Nor Cal is going to get pounded into next week. The storm's are on the warm side, which will bring a lot of moisture, but also rain, which could blow out the Truckee River for a few days. Check the USGS flows if you do

The weather or lack thereof over the past month or so has put Pyramid to sleep. The surface water temperature is down to around 44 degrees and there are some huge thermo-clines of warmer more oxygenated water 30 feet to 80 feet down. This has made fishing for the fly anglers really slow. It finally looks as though we are going to get some weather

Wow what a crazy derby so far not many fish coming in to be weighed. I did not do a report last week because there wasn't much to report on. I hear a lot of complaints from our customers. I have been told that anglers are catching fish just not sizeable ones. I have also been told that because there was

Being a guide you have your good days, and your bad days. Hopefully, your good days far out number the bad days. Yesterday, was one of those good days. Since about late summer of last year, the Truckee River has been pumping out some big bows, bigger than normal. I knew someone that fished with me was going to catch a 10 pounder, or close

A change could be on the way according to Mark Finan, our local weather guy. Let's hope. It's the middle of January and still no snow in Tahoe, crazy. Same old story on the Truckee, solid winter fishing. Midges, some more midges, baetis, worms, and stones. The streamer fishing ain't to shabby either. Looks like the end of next week could bring some weather here