Doug Busey's Weekly Update

Hello fellow anglers, I have away for a couple weeks fishing in Oregon and northern California. Oh did we get into some nice fish, which I will give you the full story at the end of this report. I would like address one seriuos issue I have been witnessing. last week when we returned from our trip, we spent a few days on the east Carson

Hello fellow anglers, Weather is hot and the skies are like a stormy winters night with all the smoke in the area. As we venture out, there are a couple things to remember. You are only allowed to have an open campfire in  designated campground. Many places in our area, IE Indian Creek reservoir (outside of the designated campground) do not allow charcoal grills .If

Hello fellow anglers, If you are planing to take an adventure to Alpine county this weekend. remember the death ride is on Saturday July 8th. There will be some temporary road closures on Monitor and Ebbetts pass south of Markleeville ( yes Ebbetts pass is now open ). Most any place you go in Alpine County this weekend there will cyclist on the road. Slow

The transition has started from spring to summer fishing. You may have to work a little harder for the mac's. Most have come in at 1 to 6 lbs with a few in the 7 to 19 lb class. Best action has been the Tahoe City shelf or the Sugarpine Point area. Dodger and a minnow is most productive. The Chrome dodger and a white

Fishing has been fair for anglers giving a good days work. The boaters have been trolling near the water falls with Rapalas for mackinaws in the 1-3 pound class.Last week Tom Blotter from Minden NV caught a 6 pound 24" mackinaw on an AC Skinny. I have not received any reports for the brown action this week. The water level is still high and the

The water level is up to within a few feet from the full mark. The county ramp is open from 7-5 seven days a week. The Caples Lake Resort is is open 7:30 am to 8 pm. They have a general store and boat launch and rentals. I fished with Tom Blotter last Saturday, we had fair luck trolling Rapalas. I caught three small rainbows

Road closed

The road is open to Charity Valley approx 7.5 miles in. The road is scheduled to be open to the lower lake by the middle of July, while the upper lake will not open until August.

The road is open. I would use caution driving in as the road did not winter very well.

Close indefinitely due to winter slides and erosion.

The lake is up and the weeds are growing fast. In 10 days the weeds grew a foot. Fishing has been good for shore anglers. Powerbait or inflated night crawlers. Fly anglers have done well with wooly buggers or small streamers. The surface temperature last week was 74 degrees. I would recommend to fish the early or late bite.  

The river is running at very fishable levels. CDFW planted the river last week with catchable rainbow trout. Alpine County planted last week with 1000 lbs of 12 inch to 5 pound rainbows. Many anglers have done well with salmon eggs or small spinners. For more information stop in Todd's Bait and Tackle.