Western Nevada Fish Reports

Substantial fish kill over the summer. Recently stocked and warm water fish still in fair numbers. While the fishing has been slow, it is expected to pick up later this month as things begin to cool off.

Angler report fair fishing for rainbow and brown trout in 15 inches in length. Good fishing for smallmouth bass to 8-10 inch inches in length. Dark patterns work the best in the turbid water. Fishing is always good in the stream high numbers of brown trout. Be stealthy when you approach the steam there is no cover.

Chris Healy, regional public information officer for NDOW, reports the Truckee is fishing great. Chris says try using a weighted October Caddis pupa size 10 trail it with a twenty incher size 8 or 10 . His philosophy is big flys equal big fish. Pheasant tails been have also been working as well as Copper Johns. Lure fisherman try using Panther Martins in yellow and

Fishing is slow and flows are barely readable.

Boat fishermen going deep have reported fair to good success on rainbow and brown trout. Although fishing has slowed, shore anglers have reported some success in the early morning.

Shore anglers have been reporting some action where they can find open water around the aquatic vegetation that chokes the shoreline. Try using white spoons or black and yellow Panther Martins. Local Fly angler Austin Willis reports fishing remains good on the fly using black leach patterns in sizes 6 and 8. Some calibatis surface action try using may fly pattern. The chironomid patterns are

No Reports. Boat ramps are a challenge due to low water conditions. The lake has many hazards with the low water conditions, boaters be careful. Wiper action is still good with new State record occurring once again. Reports of Some black bass and walleye are showing up as well in several location near the dam. Try using spinner baits in white and Slugo's in white. Fly

Closed.

Fishing has picked up, still low but slowly stating to fill up. Check out up to date stocking report.

Great fishing at catnip, lots of success with a potential to catch 14" to 19'' fish. Closes November 15.

Fair to good fishing for small crappie and yellow perch.

Fishing has slowed but remains good for walleye on the reservoir side of the dam as well as on the downstream side of the Pitt-Taylor Dam. Wiper fishing is sporadic and slow. Yellow perch and channel catchfish are still showing up. Try using yellow crappie jigs also some action on deep diving lures. Try a deep diving Fin Fin and Repala's. Bait fisherman have had

No report.

Fishing has picked up according to Kari Wright, Walker Lake biologist. Anglers have reported loads of success for boaters using spoons in colors orange and white and silver and green. Try jigging the spoon as well as casting and trolling. Bank anglers using powerbait have seen little to no success. The State Park Boat ramp and the Sportsman Boat ramp both require 4x4 vehicles due

Gene St. Denis: I've been fishing 50-200 feet deep at Ski Run Shelf and Camp Richardson. Trolling with silver Herring Dodger flasher blades and minnows. Bouncing off the bottom in a serpentine pattern. Macks are small, 2-7 pounds.

Gene St. Denis of Blue Ribbon Charters and Tahoe Trophy Trout at South Lake Tahoe, Calif. (530-544-6552): The fishing has been very good to excellent. We have been trolling 50-240 feet deep. We locate the fish on the fish finder and then troll in a "Figure Eight" pattern, bouncing the bottom. I've been fishing at Cal-Neva, Dollar Point and Sugar Pine Points. ?Į

Jim Hartfiel of Just Rite Fishing at Pyramid Lake at (775) 575-7850 (home) or (775) 813-3411 (Cell): Yesterday (Sunday), we got 12 fish with over half of them in the 22-24 inch class. We were trolling close to shore at a depth of 12 feet in 20 feet of water. We were trolling Apex lures on downriggers along the west shore.

Chris and Jeri Grellman of Sparks of Hog Charters (358-5199): We are catching fish, 12 feet deep in 30-40 feet of water, along the shore. They are catching fish anywhere at the lake, even across on the other side. We caught more fish last week than any other week, so far this season.

Tim Wilson of the Pyramid Lake Marina and RV Park at (775) 476-1156: Fishing has picked up, but it is still not as good as it was last year, at this time. The boaters are doing much better. They are using Apex and Flatfish lures. The fly fishermen are using Woolly Bugger flies. There are some big fish coming in (8-10 pounders), but they are

George and Carla Molino of the Pyramid Lake Store at (775) 476-0555: Some fish being caught. It's been up and down, on and off. Nothing consistent. The fishing has not been as good as it was last year at this time. George (Cutthroat Charters) took some boy scouts out on Saturday and they had fun catching fish.

Valerie, Linda and Patsy at Crosby's Lodge at (775) 476-0400: Fishing is still a little quiet. The biggest fish last week was 8-pounds, 6-ounces (28 inches). It was caught by Pat Perman of Reno using a rainbow Herring at Spider Point. We also had a 7-pounder and two 5-pounders checked in.