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Eastern Nevada Fish Reports


Wildhorse Reservoir Fish Report 06-07-07

by DON QUILICI
Dennis Dunn, Mark, Rocket and Scott at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: The perch are hitting like crazy. Tons of perch are being caught. The trout fishing is decent and the Channel Catfish is starting to pick up. Fishing for trout is better from a boat than from shore.

Wildhorse Reservoir Fish Report 05-31-07

by DON QUILICI
Dennis Dunn, Mark and Scott at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: Fishing was good over the holiday. Lots of perch. They were catching rainbows from shore and boats. Catfish has been good if you want to stay up until 2 a.m.

Wildhorse Reservoir Report 05-24-2007

by DON QUILICI
Dennis Dunn, Mark and Scott at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: Bass fishing in Saturday's tournament was lousy. The perch were hitting any lure thrown out. Trout are good on nightcrawlers, floated with Power Bait.

Wildhorse Reservoir Report 05-17-2007

by DON QUILICI
Dennis Dunn, Mark and Scott at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: 3-pound Wipers are hitting nightcrawlers. Small gold flashers with a worm are hot on trout. Minnow imitations are best for browns. Browns are also good in the river all the way to Owyhee. Remember to bring your bug spray. ?Į

Cave Lake Fish Report 05-15-2007

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE
Anglers are hauling in trout on PowerBait, worms, spinners and flies. To the west of Ely, Illipah is producing fish and pressure is minimal. Fly-fishermen may want to go with a bead-head Prince Nymph, Hare's Ear or Pheasant Tail.

Comins Lake Fish Report 05-15-2007

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE
Trout fishing is still slow but pike fishing is keeping willing anglers busy. Fish as large as 24 pounds have been taken from this White Pine County reservoir. Fisheries biologist Chris Crookshanks said anglers are taking fish in all age classes with many of them in the 24- to 28-inch category. Over the weekend one angler reeled in a 22-pound fish that measured 41 inches

Wildhorse Reservoir Report 05-10-2007

by DON QUILICI
Dennis Dunn, Mark and Scott at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: Fishing has been excellent. It is just as good from shore as from a boat. The browns are cruising along the shorelines looking for little perch minnows. Lots of 16-18 inch rainbows and cuttbows. There was a 4-pound brown caught from shore on Sunday.

Cave Lake Fish Report 05-08-2007

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE
Anglers are hauling in trout on PowerBait, worms, spinners and flies. To the west of Ely, Illipah is producing fish and pressure is minimal. Fly-fishermen may want to go with a bead-head Prince Nymph, Hare's Ear or Pheasant Tail.

Comins Lake Fish Report 05-08-2007

by NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE
Pike fishing has turned on. A pair of anglers caught several of the toothy fish over the weekend. Three of those weighed in at 11, 17 and 20 pounds. The latter measured more than 40 inches long. Large spinner baits, spoons and trout-look lures have been catching fish. Trout fishing is still slow as water temperatures remain quite low and are holding the fish in

Wildhorse Reservoir Report 04-19-2007

by DON QUILICI
Dennis Dunn, Mark and Scott at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: Two fishermen from Winnemucca caught their limits in three hours on Friday morning. 14-18 inches. Weather is typical Spring. Come dressed for anything from 6 to 60 degrees.?Į

Wildhorse Reservoir Report 04-12-2007

by DON QUILICI
Mark and Scott at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: The ice is all gone. A couple of boats yesterday (Sunday) caught their limits of nice rainbows, with nothing under 15 inches. The cutbows are hot on nightcrawlers with most people limiting out in 3-4 hours. The rivers are clear enough for bait or spinners.?Į

Wildhorse Reservoir Report 03-22-2007

by DON QUILICI
WILDHORSE RESERVOIR, NEV: Mark and Scott at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: There is still ice out there but I wouldn't go out on it. There is open water around the edges. There are no fishermen. It was 10 degrees this morning and it is trying to rain, right now (Tuesday).?Į

Wildhorse Reservoir Report 03-15-2007

by DON QUILICI
Mark at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: Weather has been marvelous. We've still got ice on the reservoir but the ice fishing is just about over. There is open water showing around the hot springs areas and the ice is very thin around the edges of the shoreline. At this rate, it won't be too long before they are trolling in boats.

Wildhorse Reservoir Report 03-08-2007

by DON QUILICI
Mark at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: The weather was gorgeous over the weekend, it was warm and sunny. We still have a good 2 feet of ice on the reservoir. Saturday, 3 fishermen caught a bucketful of perch and 4 big trout in only 1.5 hours. Sunday morning, 4 other fishermen caught over 100 fish. Ray Frederick and Richard Bell of Carson City

Wildhorse Reservoir Fish Report

by DON QUILICI
Dennis Dunn at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: We've got 8 inches of snow on the ground (Monday morning) and 2 feet of ice with no slush. Trout fishing has really picked up and both the trout and perch fishing is red-hot, right now. The fishing has been excellent and we've had a lot of ice fishermen. The perch are down on the bottom (18-25 feet)

Wildhorse Reservoir

by DON QUILICI
Mark at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: We got about an inch of snow last night (Sunday), so everything is white, right now. Our trout ice fishing derby was held over the weekend. On Saturday, there were about 300 fishermen. First place was Aaron Hughes with a 19.5 inch trout, second place was Rob Boehmer with a 19.3 and third place was John Cassinelli

Wildhorse Reservoir Fish Report

by DON QUILICI
Mark at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: We still have more than 2 feet of ice. In fact, there were two Toyota pickups out on the ice yesterday (Sunday). The fishing has been excellent and there have been a lot of ice fishermen. They are catching lots of Perch and a few trout. The perch are down on the bottom (18-25 feet) and the
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