Western Nevada Fish Reports

LAKE TAHOE - South Shore: Gene St. Denis: Fishing has been slow, slow, slow. I've been trolling at Ski Run Shelf at 150-280 feet with silver Herring Dodger flasher blades and live minnows. The jiggers are jigging in water 160 feet deep with Crippled Herring Jigs, tipped with a live minnow.

LAKE TAHOE - East Shore: Gene St. Denis: I'm toplining Rapala lures in 15-25 feet of water and it has been slow for rainbows, Macks and browns at Deadman's Point, Logal Shoals and Sand Harbor. I caught 5 fish on Monday with the largest being a 4-pound brown.

PYRAMID LAKE, NEV: Valerie or Linda or Patsy at Crosby's Lodge at (775) 476-0400 reported: They were doing good on the color green in the Model Dairy Derby. James Dobson had the heaviest fish (11.88). First place in the team fishing had a total of 62 pounds for 8 fish by 4 fishermen in 1 boat. There were more than 1,000 entries in the derby.

PYRAMID LAKE, NEV: Andy at the Gilly Sporting Goods Store in Sparks at 358-6113: One fly guy reported catching an 8-pounder over the weekend. The jiggers are doing good. The boaters are using the usual lures. Fly fishermen are using white/pink colors.

PYRAMID LAKE, NEV: Carla Molino of the Pyramid Lake Store at (775) 476-0555: I don't have a report this week, we were in Arizona watching major league spring training.

PYRAMID LAKE, NEV: Tim Wilson of the Pyramid Lake Marina and RV Park at (775) 476-1156: A fly fisherman at Pelican Point, last week, caught a 12.4 pounder and two 10-pounders, all on the same day. He was using Woolly Buggers and white or Chartreuse beetle flies.

PYRAMID LAKE, NEV: Jeri Grellman of Sparks of Hog Charters (358-5199): Fishing has been slow. Chris took a client out on Sunday and he caught 4 fish in 4 hours.

CARSON RIVERS, CALIF: East Carson River: The Trophy Section from Hangman's Bridge downstream to the Nevada stateline, opened year-round, on March 1.

TOPAZ LAKE: Chuck Fields at the Topaz Lake Marina (775-266-3550) reported: Yesterday (Monday), J. P. Williams caught a 4.2 pound rainbow while trolling the southwest side with a perch-colored Rapala lure. Also, Tom Brown caught a 4 pound rainbow while trolling the north end with a black/silver Rapala lure. They have been catching lots of limits on Rapalas on the west side and north and

TOPAZ LAKE: Diane at the Topaz Lake General Store: Tim Denver caught a 5.8 pound rainbow with a $100 tag. In addition, Wes Adams caught a 5.2 pound rainbow, Doug Douglas had a 4.9 pound rainbow and William Critser had a 3.4 pound rainbow.

HINKSON SLOUGH, NEV:(on the Mason Valley Wildlife Management Area): Elmer Bull: They are catching nice-sized bass.

LAHONTAN RESERVOIR, NEV: Missy at Burke's Market at Silver Springs (775-577-2750): We are now open on Mondays! The water is very high. Lots of people out fishing over the weekend. They were catching lots of white bass. I had reports of 2-3 pound Walleye being caught at Fisherman's Point on lures that look like a minnow. They are also catching fish on different types of

Gene St. Denis: Fishing has been slow to good. I've been trolling at Ski Run Shelf at 150-280 feet with silver Herring Dodger flasher blades and live minnows. The jiggers are jigging in water 160 feet deep with Crippled Herring Jigs, tipped with a live minnow. The Macks are running 2-7 pounds.

LAKE TAHOE - North Shore: Gene St. Denis of Blue Ribbon Charters and Tahoe Trophy Trout at South Lake Tahoe, Calif. (530-544-6552): Fishing has been very slow. The bite is non-existent to slightly good, at best. Last week, on a day by day basis, we caught 5 Macks, we got skunked, we got 2, we got skunked, we got 3, we got 4, we got

Crosby's Lodge at (775) 476-0400 reported: We've had some nice fish: A 12 pounder by a fly fisherman at Pelican Point, an 11-pound, 14 ounce, a 10-pound, 8 ounce and a 10-pound, 4 ounce.

Jason Molino of the Pyramid Lake Store at (775) 476-0555: The weather is much warmer. It is supposed to be 80 degrees today (Monday) with a light breeze. The fishing as picked up. There were lots of fishermen over the weekend, mostly from shore, and most of the bigger fish were caught by the shore fishermen.