Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service

Well, we went from t-shirt weather back to freezing your ass off weather in less than 24 hours. I told everyone that winter is far from over. All we need now is the high pressure that has been siting off the coast all winter to continue to move west across the Pacific. With a little luck we can get some storms to slide on down from Alaska. Lets keep our fingers...

Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service

The Truckee River is fishing very well for this time of year. The river feels like about mid-April, meaning the river is fishing how it would early spring, not
late winter, minus the bugs. The water is still cold, but warming some
during the day and the fish are spreading out into different areas of
the river. I’m not just fishing the winter frog water. Yes,...

Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service

Like most of Northern California we got hit pretty good with mostly rain, but some snow, mainly above 8000k here in the Lake Tahoe- Truckee- Reno area this last weekend. The Truckee River rose up to almost 2000 cfs, (been over a year since we’ve seen flows that high) and is now dropping as fast as it came up. We need snow not rain, but at this point, we’ll take...

Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service

On the the Truckee River the same old same old. High pressure off the coast the last 5 weeks has kept conditions calm, stagnant, and balmy for mid-winter in the Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. Mostly it’s been sunny, cold at night, and relatively good fishing during the middle part of the day. I say relatively because it’s been hit and miss for me. Some days I’ve...

Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service

Way above average daytime highs here in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. Not to good for skiing, but good for fishing. Of course, if we expect to fish this summer on the Truckee River we will need some snow. The 10 day forecast is the same old thing, sunny blue bird days, record breaking high temps.

For now take advantage of what we have. We have sunny awesome...

Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service

Milder weather, good fishing again in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. We had a little bit of a cold snap at the beginning of the week, but now Juneuary is back, and the fishing is above average once more for this time of year on the Truckee River. Even the California side of the river is fishing good, usually something I stay away from this time of year...

Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service

Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service

Deep cold has settled into the Truckee-Tahoe-Reno area. My body is shocked as I just returned home from Hawaii to find single digits here in the Hirsch. The fishing report will go like this. Wait until it warms up. Ice in the guides and single digits are just not fun to go fish in. You’ll probably get skunked anyway. This weekend it should warm back into the...

Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service

The storm of the century my ass. Frustrated to say the least. This last storm never pushed over the crest and to the east side here in Hirschdale. They didn’t even get any snow in Truckee. Usually one inch of liquid equals a foot of snow, do the math. We would have had a shit ton of snow if it pushed over the crest with a westerly flow. It didn’t, the storm...