Nevada Fish Reports

Gene St. Denis of South Lake Tahoe: My son, Eric, 12 years old, and his mom (Barbara) fished in the Hope Valley. Eric caught three planters, and one of them was 5 pounds. ?Į

Dave Kirby: The river had a plant of 1,000 pounds of rainbows on Wednesday by Alpine County. There were lots of people at every hole where they planted. Those holes are probably fished out by now.

Renie Busey of Douglas caught two 3.2 pound rainbows over the weekend.

Chuck and Linda Fields at the Topaz Lake Marina (775-266-3550): Last weekend was the less amount of people that I've seen in my 15 years out here. Not that many fishermen, water skiers and jet skis. I think it is probably due to a combination of high gas prices and the Topaz Lodge being closed. The trollers (Needlefish lures) and still fishermen (nightcrawlers) did good

Missy at Burke's Market at Silver Springs (775-577-2750): I'm estimating that there were 20,000 people. There were huge crowds everywhere. Lots of people were fishing and the fishing was awesome, especially on Monday. Lots of Wipers. There was a Channel Catfish over 30 inches long and a Largemouth Bass that was 2.5 pounds.

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.

Largemouth bass, crappie and rainbow trout. Anglers were catching them all over the holiday weekend. Crappie were hitting a small Gitzit fished about two feet below a pencil bobber. Bass were hitting just about anything anglers were opted to throw ??? spinners, lures and plastics. In the early morning the bass were being caught along the southern shoreline, but as the temperatures warmed up the

Anglers are having some success for striped bass, but the action has yet to really pick up. Those who are catching fish have used a variety of techniques from trolling to still-fishing and casting lures. A few channel cats have also shown up. They seem to favor chicken livers and anchovies. Largemouth bass have been active in the lower end of the lake near Katherine

Heavy boating traffic associated with the holiday weekend kept many anglers at home or off the water. Those who went out picked up a few stripers, mostly on live shad. Tim Myers, president of the Nevada BASS Federation, said fishing for both largemouth and smallmouth bass has been very good in recent weeks. Much of the action has been coming in the bays and coves

The run-off is minimal this spring and the River is already fishing well. There are a couple of tributaries that are flowing pretty hard and the lower river is a little high. From Boca Bridge upstream to Tahoe City the Truckee is perfect. Czech nymphing has been very effective and there has even been some dry fly activity. March Brown's, Grey Drake's and Baetis can

Flows are fluctuating between 400 and 500 cfs. Fluctuations are vey typical for this time of year due to run-off. As the peaks and the valleys of the fluctuations start to get closer together the fishing really takes off. The East Carson is already fishing pretty good and will only get better over the next couple of months. Look for Grey Drakes and March