Fish Reports

 With water temperatures dropping, striped bass are moving in toward shore where anglers should experience improved fishing. Anglers can find better fishing between depths of 25 and 40 feet. There has been an abundance of threadfin shad anglers are using as live bait. Catfish are hitting anchovies fished from shore in Government Wash and around the Hemenway Fishing Pier. Kayakers and boaters are finding good

The area south of the Lahontan Fish hatchery has produced some rainbows. Anglers have been drifting salmon eggs with a split shot.

The NDOW planted the river recently with rainbow trout. Fishing has been good to fair depending on your location. I personally like to fish the Wilson Canyon area.

The Truckee River is holding steady and 340 cfs, but temperatures are fluctuating quite a bit. Some days have been better than others, but the fish have been steady in water that is a walking pace and slower. Fish are putting on weight for the winter and are eating well in the afternoons and evenings when things start to warm up. We have been focusing

Both shoreline anglers and boaters have found good action for rainbow and tiger trout in the 10- to 12-inch range. The trout bite has been best through in the morning hours. Anglers are catching the fish with worms and PowerBait. Bass are still hitting baits but are doing so later in the day. Early morning temperatures have been dropping below the freezing mark.

 Rainbow trout have been biting well for the few anglers working the lake. Pink, orange, and green PowerBait have been productive. So too have small spinners for those using lures. Fly-anglers are catching trout and bass with dark colored Woolly Buggers.

One-pound stripers are taking cut anchovies from boaters and shore anglers above Big Bend. Larger stripers seem to prefer swimbaits, or a white Bomber Long A fished a couple of feet down. Trout are biting through Casino Row, and anglers are hitting this area hard. Black bass are hitting on plastics along the shelves in coves.

Stocked rainbow trout are providing good fishing for anglers following weekly plants by the National Fish Hatchery. Striped bass can be caught with trout imitations. including both soft plastics and jointed swimbaits. Anglers have been catching fish between 5 and 20 pounds. One California angler reported that he caught a 28-pound striper recently on a homemade lure. Catfish are holding in coves below Cottonwood Basin

Fishing has been sluggish with fish feeding at night during the full moon. The action should pick up this next week. Hot dog pieces, night crawlers or stink baits will catch the fish. The last catfish plant of the 2019 season is slated for the end of October.

Anglers have been able to take advantage of cooler morning and evening temperatures to catch black bass, stripers, and catfish. Striped bass action has been good for shore anglers in the Las Vegas Bay area and boaters around the Boulder Islands. Anchovies, live shad, and jointed swimbaits are catching the fish.

The striper bite here along the Colorado river below the Davis dam has slowed a bit and our trout stocking program will be up and running this week. The willow beach hatchery should be stocking soon if all goes according to plan I would look for trout stocking around this coming Tuesday as a guess . There are stripers out there and our local angler