Fish Reports

We didn’t have anyone on the ranch this week, if you want to fish some un-pressured water with no crowds give us a call and we can get you on there!!

Is there such a thing as Christmas in August? The Truckee River flows have finally reached a level that allows us to start stocking fish. Tomorrow morning, Mason Valley Hatchery will load a truck with over 6,500 rainbow trout. They will be stocked from the bridges through Reno and Sparks including Patagonia, Fisherman’s Park, Booth St and Virginia St. The fish will average 8-10”.

The ranch fished ok this week, seemed like mainly smaller fish down there, most in the 12 to 16 inch range, dry/dropper rigs worked pretty well for one angler while most were fishing nymphs and getting into some fish. 

I ventured up last Saturday evening with Tom Blotter from Minden NV. We started trolling at 6:30 pm, got our first hookup at 6:30 and 45 seconds. Fishing turned off with in the hour and a half. Next morning we started at 5:30 am. I caught 2 and Tom caught 7, we were fishing on the south end of the lake. and by the noon

Hot is the word here in Tahoe/Truckee/Reno on the Truckee River.  Nice in the mornings, hot as hell in the afternoons. They will set a record for consecutive days over 90 in Reno this summer. Thankfully, we have water in the river this summer or they’d been nuked already. I have done a little guiding in NV-Reno, on the Truckee River. The future looks bright for the

We haven’t had anyone on the ranch this week but when the flows start to come down we expect the fishing to be excellent down there! 

Pretty good solid fishing on the Truckee River. Flows have stayed pretty steady this week at just under 500 cubes here in the Hirsch. Good average summertime flows. These fish are back in all their summertime holding spots. Trouts have moved into last oxygenated water. It is hot out and trout need cool water. The cool water is in the fast stuff. Yes, you will need to

We haven’t had anyone on the ranch this week but when the flows start to come down we expect the fishing to be excellent down there! 

I talked with fellow angler and long time friend Dan Maldonado. He fished a couple weeks ago with his wife and had good success on the California side with various colors of powerbait. Dan told me the rainbows were 14 to 19 inches and very clean and healthy. If you decide to do some trolling, I would get out early and be off the lake by