Fish Reports

Norm Budden and Marty Martinez of Carson City fished in their chest waders on Tuesday 9-10:30 a.m., until a strong wind began to blow. Budden caught 3 cutthroat trout (2 were tagged) and Martinez got skunked.

Dennis Dunn, Jerry, Fred, Ron and Debbie at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: The temperatures are now down to 1-6 degrees at night. The reservoir now has a thin skim of ice from the state boat ramp toward the resort. Shore fishermen have been catching some nice rainbows (15-19 inches and super fat) and perch with no weights and inflated worms. They are also

Boulder is low, but the fishing is great. While the aquatic vegetation makes things a bit challenging, anglers that can get out past the vegetation are still pulling in 14-inch rainbow.

Substantial fish kill over the summer. Recently stocked and warm water fish still in fair numbers.

Angler report fair fishing for rainbow and brown trout in 15 inches in length. Good fishing for smallmouth bass to 8-10 inch inches in length. Dark patterns work the best in the turbid water. Fishing is always good in the stream high numbers of brown trout. Be stealthy when you approach the steam there is no cover.

Chris Healy, regional public information officer for NDOW, reports the Truckee is fishing great. Chris says try using a weighted October Caddis pupa size 10 trail it with a twenty incher size 8 or 10 . His philosophy is big flys equal big fish. Pheasant tails been have also been working as well as Copper Johns. Lure fisherman try using Panther Martins in yellow and

The Carson has not been fishing very well this year due to the flows but some anglers have had some luck near the broken dam in Gardnerville. Try using Casmasters in gold and if fly fishing try a gold ribbed hares ear or a prince nymph in size a 12 to 14.

Closed opens January 1.

Tiger trout are showing up in numbers. Shore anglers have been reporting some action where they can find open water around the aquatic vegetation that chokes the shoreline. Try using white spoons or black and yellow Panther Martins. Local Fly angler Austin Willis reports fishing remains good on the fly using black leach patterns in sizes 6 and 8. The chironomid patterns are still successful

No Reports

Water is dropping again. Springs discontinued to flow. Think snow.

No new reports.

Fair to good fishing for small crappie and yellow perch.

Fishing has slowed but remains good for walleye on the reservoir side of the dam as well as on the downstream side of the Pitt-Taylor Dam. Wiper fishing is sporadic and slow. Yellow perch and channel catchfish are still showing up. Try using yellow crappie jigs also some action on deep diving lures. Try a deep diving Fin Fin and Repala's. Bait fisherman have had

No report.

Fishing has picked up according to Kari Wright Walker Lake Biologist. Anglers have reported loads of success for boaters using spoons in colors orange and white and silver and green. Try jigging the spoon as well as casting and trolling. Bank anglers using powerbait have seen little to no success. The State Park Boat ramp and the Sportsman Boat ramp both require 4x4 vehicles due

Colder temperatures have moved in, but fish will bite until ice up. Anglers should be prepared to experiment with a variety of baits.

The water level is low, but anglers may find some trout in the deep water along the dam.

The Thanksgiving weekend was good for one boater who caught several large striped bass near Willow Beach. The largest fish weighed 30 pounds, and the man landed several stripers that weighed between 10 and 20 pounds. The fish were caught on various swimbaits, among them the AC Plug. Shore anglers haven't fared as well as boaters when it comes to catching stripers. For them fishing

Striper fishing is picking up in the Hemenway area. Anglers have been catching fish weighing as much as 13 pounds with cut bait. In the Vegas Bay Arm anglers continue to reel in striped bass weighing in the one- to three-pound range. Still fishing with cut bait and jigging have both produced fish. Action is best in the early morning. Anglers have also been catching