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November came in like a lion on the Truckee River

by MATT KOLES
November came in like a lion on the Truckee River, with big high flows, after basically a trickle. Now we’re settling back into late fall, early winter flows. Cold nights, and mild days. Continued warmth on the forecast, fingers crossed we get more snow before the end of the month. It’s looking like the end of this 21 day dry cycle might bring another AR type

Indicator Cutthroat Fishing

by PYRAMID FLY CO.
Craig came out with us and put his new knowledge to work. After learning all the ins and outs of indicator fishing Craig went out after the clinic and accomplished his season goal on day 1, thus enabling him to make a new goal after the end of the first day out here at the lake. All the right tools for the job make chasing

Streamer Clinic, Saturday November 27th

by MATT KOLES
Streamer Clinic, Saturday November 27th.   If I could access my old posts, I’d have a long write up on what to expect for the streamer clinic. My sites still a bit jacked. Anyways, kinda last minute clinic, but the weather is supposed to be nice for a few weeks and streamer fishing sure is fun going into Winter.  In this clinic we will fish streamers on my

Middle of the day Pilot

by PYRAMID FLY CO.
Middle of the day Pilot during today’s bobber clinic. Can’t catch em unless your flies are in the water.

Nice One on Tahoe Today

by MIKE NIELSEN
Nice clean bow today!

Things have been improving at Pyramid Lake

by RENO FLY SHOP
Things have been improving at Pyramid Lake since the significant rainfall a few weeks ago. Water clarity has improved and the new fresh water that fell on the lake and came in from the river and tributaries has mixed making much more favorable conditions for the trout to go on their bite. We are in that time in the season when we begin to transition

Truckee River has cleared up and flows are just above average flow

by RENO FLY SHOP
The big Truckee River has cleared up and flows are just above average flow at the downtown Reno gage. These flows, just over 400 cfs, are great levels to access some of the less fished spots on the river. The fish have more than enough water to move around but are concentrated in typical spots to be able to find. Bugs have also been somewhat predictable

17.5 Pounder

by FISH REPORTS STAFF
Donny checked in with us today from Pyramid Lake, NV with his 17.5 lbs. Lahontan Cutthroat Trout.

22.5 lb. Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Opening Day

by FISH REPORTS STAFF
Donny checked in with us today from Pyramid Lake, NV opening day with his 22.5 lbs. Lahontan Cutthroat Trout and a 18 pounder that he caught this season as well.

Days Are Getting Colder & Fish Are Frequenting The Shallows More Often

by PYRAMID FLY CO.
    All of our awesome clients make guiding a truly amazing job! And we have some bad ass return clients that continue to come out and improve their skills and top personal bests time and time again.     Dale stuck a hot Pilot to start off the morning. The days are getting cooler and the fish are frequenting the shallows more often.

Partnership Restores Flows to Little Washoe Lake

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE
Washoe County, NV- Little Washoe Lake water levels are now recovering after the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) worked with partners to repair a water diversion ditch that feeds the Washoe Lakes system, which includes Big and Little Washoe Lakes, as well as the Scripps Wildlife Management Area (WMA) that lies between. Little Washoe and portions of the Scripps WMA dried up during summer 2021 due

Woman’s clinic December 4th and 5th

by PYRAMID FLY CO.
Some thick minnow filled fish lurking the ledges. Woman’s clinic December 4th and 5th. +1 (877) 732-3597 INFO@PYRAMIDFLYCO.COM

Mackinaw are in full spawn mode

by DOUG BUSEY
Mackinaw are in full spawn mode. Larger fish from 4-10 lbs are being caught from 140-220 ft down across the south shore. Smaller immature mackinaw have moved up and fish from 1-3 lbs can be caught in 20-40 ft water as they are corralling bait. The larger fish are full of eggs and milt and meat is off color. Smaller fish not mature to spawn

No Annual Fishing Derby This Year

by DOUG BUSEY
I spoke with the Topaz Lodge and they will not be having their annual fishing derby this year. The lake level has come up with our recent rainfall. The NDOW has planted the lake this week with 9500 rainbow trout. Fishing has been good to fair with our ever changing weather patterns. The Douglas County boat ramp is open. Reminder to those who may not

Great Morning on The Lake

by HANS MOXLEY
Wow !!! Great morning to be fishing. Thanks bud for coming out with me

With the lake cooling off we will begin to see the larger fish coming out to play

by THE FLY SHOP
Some fish are now being picked up near shore on the drop offs, but to get into any good numbers you will need to be in a tube or pontoon to get out deeper. With the lake cooling off we will begin to see the larger fish coming out to play. The Zack's Pyramid Minnow in Tui Chub, the Popcorn Beetle, Moo Midges and just

Fishing is downright real good on The Truckee River

by MATT KOLES
We’re finally having a real Fall in the Truckee/Lake Tahoe/Reno area. The kind where it’s cold, and you actually feel like you live in the mountains. It definitely ain’t t-shirt weather like the last few years. Looks like November is shaping up to be cold and wet too. Thank God. Fishing is downright real good. Over 500 cubes here in the Hirsch on the Truckee River.

Late October Pyramid Lake Report

by RENO FLY SHOP
Not sure how much Pyramid Lake raised over the week but can imagine it was measurable. Earlier in the week many of the beaches had muddy water conditions from tributary runoff. If you pull up to your favorite beach and find it uniformly muddy it might be best to pick another spot. If however, you can see a clearly defined boundary between muddy and clear

Truckee River: After The Storm Report

by RENO FLY SHOP
At the downtown Reno gage the river is just over 500 cfs after peaking over 5,000 cfs at the downtown gage during last weekends historic storm. It was great to see water in the river again and we will take whatever we can get whenever we can get it.  The fishing conditions have continued to improve through the week as water begins to clear and the

We’re back in business on the Truckee River

by MATT KOLES
We’re back in business on the Truckee River. Sorry for the lack of reports. My web site has been jacked for the last few months. I finally got it worked out, and will keep up on the reports again once I get this new WordPress theme figured out. There wasn’t shit to report anyways, we had no water. Thankfully, through a miracle, we got hammered

Late October Pyramid Lake Report

by BEARFISH ALLIANCE STAFF
This is always the challenging time of the season at Pyramid, and as hot as the opener was we have seen the tapering off of the bite as we progress through the month of October. Most of us may have been chasing baitballs early on, and that was because a combination of things were happening; steady barometric pressure, low winds, and happy Cutties chowing on

The lake is in transition right now

by PYRAMID FLY CO.
As we these large storm systems push into the area the water temperature is dropping, the bait balls are spreading out and so are the fish. The lake is in transition right now while water temperatures drop and the fish start slowly moving in. These cool systems will shorten this typical “slow” season as the temps drop. With November right around the corner we are
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