Western Nevada Fish Reports

Amazing fall day yesterday. Departure at 7 am. By 10 had caught many of two species keeping just enough for the boys bbq!!

Lil grind yesterday but ended up 16 fish. Kept 14 biggest just at 11.5. The hens are really showing roe sacs now!

The Truckee River is fishing best below the Boca Reservoir because of the higher flows. Upper river has minimal flows around 70 cfs. If you are fishing upper river, there is some dry fly activity with blue winged olives. Below Hirschdale, caddis and October caddis are working best. Some other patterns to try are crawdads, streamers, and small stone flies. FLOWS: Tahoe City 76 CFS, Glenshire

Continued warm weather. Hot in the afternoons, cold in the mornings on the Truckee River. We need us a change in the weather. Looks like we might get something later in the week. Something is better than nothing. Fishing has been more like September, and less like October. Hopefully, that changes. If we could get some weather, would turn things on a bit. Get some brown trouts

Water level is down. Fishing is doing very well due to the NDOW planting 3800 trout last week. trollers have done well with just trolling black and silver Roostertail lures. Blades and a crawler has also been productive.  Shore anglers have been using power bait with a short leader. Beware of the smoke that may creep back in this weekend. NO campfires anywhere!

Truckee River  The Truckee River is flowing near 300 cfs at the downtown gauge and river temperatures are perfect, starting the day in the high 50s and ending in the mid 60s. We cannot ask for better fishing conditions! Fishing has been a little sporadic, but overall good. Late morning starts have been the most productive nymphing and using streamers. We’re still focusing on sizes #14-#18

The US Forest service has lifted closures on forest lands after being closed last week. The Truckee river is fishing great right now because of the cooler temperatures moving in. The flows in the Upper Truckee River are slow and shallow, until you get near the Hirschdale Canyon. The best flows run from here until the Nevada state border. Anglers top choices should be large

Heading into Fall. Summer ain’t got much left. Fishing is good on the Truckee River. Flows have got real skinny above Boca. Below Boca and down through Nevada, flows are about just right for Fall. The whole lower river is fishing very good. Cool to cold nights, warm afternoons, and a pretty good bite throughout the day. Fish softer water early when it’s cold, fish the faster water

Streamer Clinic, October 3rd. Learn to catch fish on streamers in the Truckee River. Learn a different way to fish streamers than what is traditionally taught. Learn a hybrid leader system you can streamer fish and tight line nymph with. A hybrid Euro streamer system. Oftentimes we catch more fish on streamers then we do on nymphs. That’s during the right time of year. Fall, and Winter,

When your first mate get reel in a bunch while the clients cheer you know you did some damage early. My boy Ty gettin it done as always. Check the fish streaking through the shrimp band. Going up down through it!

Because of US National Forest closures in California, parts of the Upper Truckee River are closed for fishing. If it is on forest land, please do not fish in that area. The flows in the Upper Truckee River are currently minimal due to the restoration currently happening. The best flows are below the Boca Reservoir. With cooler nights here, the water temperatures are getting cooler

Mainly smoke, and good fishing on the Truckee River. If you can deal with the smoke from all the wildfires, well, fishing is really good. Some days it’s bad, some it’s ok. Smoke is essentially cloud cover and is good for fishing. Not good for the lungs, or for anyone in danger. Can’t imagine being in harms way, though Hirschdale almost burned back in ‘01. Thankfully,

Fishing has been productive, fall is coming and looking forward to mixed species!

With cooler nights here, the Truckee River is starting to cool down to the low 60s by the morning. The fishing conditions are great until early afternoon, then the temperatures spike. Please respect the fish and only try fishing mornings and late evenings. Anglers should try ESN style nymphing in the morning with peaches and cream, two bit stones, and perdigons. In the evenings, anglers

Summer hanging on. Record heat for the weekend. Though it does feel like summer is running out of gas. Mornings are cool, afternoons are hot, but that’ll change soon. Not much change since last weeks report. We’ve been smoke free for the last few days. Been very Smokey in Tahoe and the Truckee Meadows. Smoke is good for fishing, much like cloud cover. Mornings have been good

Striper boils have slowed down over the past week but have still been seen along the canal and in the Yellowbar area during the early morning hours. Anglers have been somewhat successful trolling the lake using heavy Kastmasters, umbrella rigs and deeper diving jerk baits. Lugworms, mackerel and anchovies have been working well form the shoreline to catch both stripers and catfish along the canal

Truckee River  The last few days we have smoke is beginning to clear. Maybe the only good thing about the smoke we have all been getting is that it was able to drop the water temps from highs in low 70s. Combined with the 7 day forecast for cooler temps we might be through the worst of summer high water temps. Fishing has been good the last

            Well today started of only boating 3 of 11 hookups early. Never got out of the hole. Lost some gear. We did get 4 species as at the end we made completely different shift and boated a nice brown immediately followed up by bigger Rainbow!     Back at it tomorrow!

The Truckee River is flowing great, but anglers should only try fishing in the early mornings or the last hour of the day. The water temperatures in the afternoons are reaching the 70s and fishing at this time could cause undue stress on the fish. Anglers should also concentrate on the fast pocket water where the oxygen levels are higher for the fish. Nymphing with

Smoke. Looks like all of California is under a blanket of smoke. I feel for those families that are in any of the fire zones. So far, fingers crossed, Tahoe hasn’t burned, but dry lightning is forecasted this week. Some days have been better than others air quality wise here in Tahoe. If there’s a silver lining, it’s that the smoke acts as could cover, and has