Fish Reports

Lake Tahoe Fish Report

by DON QUILICI

East Shore: Gene St. Denis: Toplining with Rapala lures has been good to excellent, dependent on the day, for mostly rainbows and some Macks (2-6 pounds) at Deadman's Point, Logal Shoals and Zephyr Cove. Shore fishermen at Cave Rock have been having good action for 10-20 inch rainbows with worms, Power Bait or live minnows.

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Lake Tahoe Fish Report

Lake Tahoe

by DON QUILICI

Chuck Fields at the Topaz Lake Marina (775) 266-3550 reported: The lake just opened up this last weekend. There is still a little ice left, but it is mostly open. Our Marina is now open to launch boats. ?Į?ĮThe weather was bad over the weekend, so we did not have any fishermen out here. ?Į?ĮThere are a couple of boats out there today (Monday), but

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Pyramid Lake Fish Report

Pyramid Lake

by DON QUILICI

Linda at Crosby's Lodge at (775) 476-0400 reported: Our two-weekend derby has had a huge turn-out. We have 433 fishermen signed up (Monday), and we will hit 500 for sure by next weekend.?Į?ĮSaturday, we had rain but no wind and everyone was fishing.?Į?ĮThe current derby leaders are: Peter Thompson of Reno with an 11-pound, 15 ounce Cutthroat. He is a fly fisherman who fishes at

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Pyramid Lake Fish Report

Pyramid Lake

by DON QUILICI

George Molino of the Pyramid Lake Store at (775) 476-0555 reported: We are in the derby but not doing much. We caught fish but nothing big. We caught and released 16 which included a couple of 23-inchers, but that was it. We talked to some other boats, and they reported the same.

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Pyramid Lake Fish Report

Pyramid Lake

by DON QUILICI

Chris and Jeri Grellman of Sparks of Hog Charters (358-5199): We are entered in Crosby's derby but I think that all we did was each pay $75 for a hat. We fished hard on Saturday, caught and released 9 fish but nothing bigger than 21 inches. Sunday, we caught and released 13 with the biggest being 22 inches. We were marking a lot of big

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Squaw Creek Reservoir Fish Report

Squaw Creek Reservoir

by DON QUILICI

Andy at The Gilly Sporting Goods Store: A fisherman told me that the reservoir is ice free on one side. He caught 10 fish in 4 hours with a Woolly Bugger fly.

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Truckee River Fish Report

Truckee River

by DON QUILICI

Andy at The Gilly Sporting Goods Store: I had a report of a big brown caught on a spinner and that a couple of fly fishermen did very well, but no details.

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Hinnkson Slough Report

Hinkson Slough

by DON QUILICI

Elmer Bull reported: The fishing was real good. In about an hour of fishing, we caught three trout about 14 inches. We saw quite a few fish caught and everybody seemed pretty happy. We caught our fish on Vibrax spinners and Panther/Martin lures. The fly fishermen were using brass bead heads and they were doing well. A fly fishing club was there and I could

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Hinkson Slough Report

Hinkson Slough

by DON QUILICI

Nate Johnston of Douglas County reported: Got there at 7:30 a.m. (Saturday), and fished from shore and my pontoon until 3 p.m. Lots of people catching few fish. I did well all day with a little Mayfly Nymph that I tie (3 fish), and a big wire-bodied Midge Pupa (red, Beadhead, size 10) (6 fish). Only one of the fish was a dink, the rest were

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Fort Churchill Cooling Ponds

Fort Churchill Cooling Pond

by DON QUILICI

Elmer Bull of Yerington reported: Fishing was very slow on Opening Day. We saw lots of fishermen, but only saw one bass and a few catfish being caught.

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Wildhorse Reservoir Fish Report

Wild Horse Reservoir

by DON QUILICI

Mark at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: We still have more than 2 feet of ice. In fact, there were two Toyota pickups out on the ice yesterday (Sunday). The fishing has been excellent and there have been a lot of ice fishermen. They are catching lots of Perch and a few trout. The perch are down on the bottom (18-25 feet) and the

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Pyramid Lake Report

Pyramid Lake

by RICK THOMAS

Fishing report by the Just Rite Fishing Charter Service, Fernley, NV, phone# 1-775-575-7850. They Charter for Pyramid Lake, Lahontan Reservoir, Walker Lake, and Lake Tahoe. Written by Rick Thomas. Hello Wes Saturday the Just Rite II went across the lake to HELLS KITCHEN after the BIG FISH at the request of his able Crew Dog Keith and his son Michael. The ride over was in choppy waters and

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Pyramid Lake Report

Pyramid Lake

by TRUCKEE RIVER OUTFITTERS

Fishing overall has been a little slow. As always this time of year the anlgers that move around and find the fish are doing better. The anglers that continue to pound the nets area are not doing very good. Brian Sullivan caught and released two fish over 4 pounds last weekend while fishing the South end of the lake. there have been other reports of

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Truckee River Report

Truckee River

by TRUCKEE RIVER OUTFITTERS

Fishing is pretty slow for numbers of fish but there are a few big fish being caught. Arlo Townsend, guide for the Reno Fly Shop caught and released a 28 inch 10 pound Brown trout over the past week. With some warmer weather approaching the coming weeks should be pretty good. Fish seem to get active on those warmer winter days.Czech nymphing with Burk's bottom

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