Nevada Fish Reports

The party's over, Chris left to go back home to Bozeman, and I'll be in full guide mode for the next couple weeks. It was nice to spend a few days on the river, fishing and talking shit to each other. We both managed a couple nice browns, and lost some nice fish. The weather is ridiculous up here, almost to hot, and I think

After another successful rib-off this weekend, at my age, I'm still in recovery mode. Sorry for the long delay since my last blog post. I've had friends in town, and last week was spent mostly working around the house, cutting some wood, and getting ready for winter. I do have my good friend Chris from Bozeman in town, and we are now putting in some

The Sceirine is fishing excellent lately as well, much the same patterns as on the California side, plus you can go with a copper john or birds nest as well.

It don't get much better. Fall is here, them cottonwoods got some gold on them, and there's snow up on the Twin Sisters. If you can't catch fish now on the Truckee River, than you should sell the fly rod and strictly stick to golf. Both states are fishing really well, with them big browns starting to show. Of course, it's been another couple days

The Sceirine is also fishing excellent with some nice 20 to 24 inch fish making a showing. Pretty much the same patterns as on the Cali side seem to be working. Streamers and dry/dropper rigs have been very productive on the ranch.

Larry and I, the little brother I never wanted, hit the conservancy for a few hours the other day. We hit up America's next top run, and though we didn't kill it, we still manged to catch a few. Larry's off again, Monday, to ride his bike to South America. Second times a charm I guess. If he makes it through Mexico, I'll be impressed.

What a crazy last three days it's been. Friday, I had one of my worst guide days all year, if we were having fish for dinner, we would have have gone to bed hungry. Saturday, Hector and Jim from Fresno came up, greeted by a 12 pack of their local IPA, some clouds and cooler weather, I knew we would hook some fish. Walking down

Many of the same patterns as listed for the East Walker have been working on the ranch. Good dry/dropper action as well as nymphing and streamers. The weather is changing in the Sierra daily so sometimes patterns will change often as well.

I used to have an old Suburu Justy, it was a three banger, and that damn thing always overheated. I'm running on three cylinders myself, overheating every afternoon in the sun, on a vitamin D overload, and waiting for some fall weather. In a month, or two, I'll be wishing it was 80 again. Near record temps this week combined with a long summer of

Sometimes, all it takes is some overcast skies to get big fish to turn on. Susan got this big brown (look at the smile on her face) yesterday across the border on the Truckee River. He ate my #16 baetis emerger, or soft hackle. Todd, her husband, lost one as big, just couldn't chase it downstream. He then went back to the same spot

Dry/dropper rigs, streamers and nymphs have all been doing well. There's a lot of dates booked up for the ranch the next few weeks so if you want to get on there give us a call to check availability.

Fishing is pretty damn good here on the Truckee River, and with some fall weather expected this weekend, it will only get better. I've been spending most of my time on the California side of the river, and the fishing is solid, in fact the best it's been all year. I've had some good reports of October Caddis on the upper river, but haven't seen

Thanks to consecutive high water years we have had an explosion of young fish, especially fish in the 8-14″ class, here, on the California side of the Truckee River. Job security for me, and a healthy trout river for all. We've been hooking tons of these guys lately, one can keep their rod bent all day right now. Of course, there are big fish too,