Western Nevada Fish Reports

It's a cold proposition this time of year on the California side. It's been in the low teens in the morning. Yesterday, 9 degrees at my house in Hirschdale, today 18, with 4" of snow. Time to start fishing a little later. Have breakfast, drink your coffee slowly, wait for it to warm up, and then hit the river. On the Nevada side things are

Looks like this will be that last week of Indian Summer, highs will be in the 30-40's, with snow and rain for the rest of the week here in the Hirsch. I'm actually a bit excited about it. Clouds and snow mean two things this time of year, streamer's, and b-dubs. G.G.S. headquarters will have the fire stoked, and the beer cold. Elliot got her

Been spending most of my time in the desert lately. It's still in the seventies down there, a little warm for my liking. If your patient though, you can be rewarded.

East of Reno, in the desert, there are trout, sagebrush, and coyotes. The Nature Conservancy section of the Truckee River is just coming into shape, a solid winter trout fishery. November is when she shines, when the river and brown trout put on their gold fall colors. It's the Truckee River version of an old Spaghetti Western. These are some photos from yesterday.

It's good, real good, anywhere on the river. All it took was some colder, overcast weather. In one day the fishing went from okay, to pretty damn good. It's pumpkin weather now, and them big fish are back on the move. Fish are chasing streamers, eating nymphs, and poking their heads up for blue wings floating by. Think baetis, October caddis, stones, worms, eggs,

Weather wise, this sunny ass weather we're having ain't helping the fishing any. Indian Summer has set in, and frankly, I want some streamer weather. The ten day forecast looks for much of the same. The fishing ain't bad on both sides of the Truckee River, CA and NV, but it would be nice tossing some bwos, and streamers around. I guess November will be

The party's over, Chris left to go back home to Bozeman, and I'll be in full guide mode for the next couple weeks. It was nice to spend a few days on the river, fishing and talking shit to each other. We both managed a couple nice browns, and lost some nice fish. The weather is ridiculous up here, almost to hot, and I think

After another successful rib-off this weekend, at my age, I'm still in recovery mode. Sorry for the long delay since my last blog post. I've had friends in town, and last week was spent mostly working around the house, cutting some wood, and getting ready for winter. I do have my good friend Chris from Bozeman in town, and we are now putting in some

It don't get much better. Fall is here, them cottonwoods got some gold on them, and there's snow up on the Twin Sisters. If you can't catch fish now on the Truckee River, than you should sell the fly rod and strictly stick to golf. Both states are fishing really well, with them big browns starting to show. Of course, it's been another couple days

Larry and I, the little brother I never wanted, hit the conservancy for a few hours the other day. We hit up America's next top run, and though we didn't kill it, we still manged to catch a few. Larry's off again, Monday, to ride his bike to South America. Second times a charm I guess. If he makes it through Mexico, I'll be impressed.