Fish Reports

Striped bass action remains good at Lake Mead, with anglers finding success using live shad and anchovies from the Boulder Beach Fishing Pier. Anglers fishing in the early morning and overnight hours are averaging higher catch rates than those fishing during the day. Boaters trolling shad-style lures in approximately 40 feet of water are also reporting steady action. Black bass fishing is improving around Callville

Current Water Conditions With the recent precipitation, flows on the Truckee River right now are slightly higher than normal for the winter season—holding around 76 CFS out of Tahoe City, 220 CFS through the Glenshire area, and 503 CFS at Farad. The bite is slower this time of year, but can still be rewarding for anyone wanting to make the trek in the colder weather.  

The Truckee has been fishing very well this week. This is such a great time to live in the area and have the opportunity to go fish the river on a whim, with few others around and plenty of fired up fish! With the fish holding in slow water right now, indicator fishing is the name of the game, focus on walking speed water or

The dock at the main boat ramp has been removed for the winter. Much of the reservoir is covered in very thin, unsafe ice. Do not attempt to venture onto the ice. Some open water remains along pockets of the shoreline of Jet Ski Beach and Coyote Cove campground. Trout fishing has been fair, with the most action midday. Fish are hitting combinations of PowerBait

The lake is entirely covered with ice. The ice on the southeast end of the lake is sitting at 6 to 7 inches.  The ice was not tested in the middle of the lake straight out from the large day-use cove and to the dam. Based on observation the ice quality in this area is poor and anglers should avoid it.  Anglers should always use

Approximately 50% of the reservoir is covered with a thin layer of ice. The southern half of the reservoir has open water and should be conducive to shoreline angling. Anglers could use nightcrawlers and spinners to catch trout this winter. The fishery is recovering after significant drawdown events.

The north lake is covered in 2.5 to 3.5 inches of ice. The ice quality on the north lake is poor and anglers should avoid this area. Moving through the narrows and into the south lake the ice is 5 to 8 inches thick. The ice quality in these areas is good and should provide good fishing. On the south end, near the float tube

The reservoir lost ice since last week, but is still mostly covered in ice. The area north of the old dam is a mix of 4- to 7-inch-thick ice.  The quality of ice in this area was deemed good and should provide with good fishing to anglers. The ice that was firm black ice two weeks ago is now soft and fair to poor quality.

The lake level has come up a few feet. There were fish all over the lake. Which we pickup on my scanner. We trolled various Rapalas in f3's f5's and j7's in various patterns with only a few strikes and one to the boat. I spoke with a few other anglers and they had the same luck. Reminder that if you use the park area