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Fishing Report

Truckee River Fly Fishing Report

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...

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Truckee River Fly Fishing Report

Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service

Finally, I feel as if the Truckee River is coming back into it’s own again. She’s starting to fish like the old river we love and remember. I thought we’d take a big hit from the low water event that happened late summer and last fall, but I think we came out all right in most sections of the river. Sure, a few fish didn’t make it, but overall the river...

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Truckee River Fly Fishing Report

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...

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Truckee River Fly Fishing Report

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...

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Truckee River Fly Fishing Report

Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service
Another Truckee River fishing report in the same week, I can get used to this again. I’ve been fishing the river a little every day since Thursday and relieved to say the fish and the river are looking good. It’s like she’s back to her old self. We went through some hard times, straight up, wasn’t really sure if I would still be able to fish/ guide the...
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Truckee River Fly Fishing Report

Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service

This has been a long time coming. Over two months since I’ve done a fishing report on the Truckee River. That was the last day I guided the river, it was marginal then, and that was in California. In Nevada the water was staggering low over the last three months, some fished it, most didn’t. If you were one that didn’t fish the river during those hard times we...

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