Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s Troutfitters Report on 2.10.2016

Since the weather was so warm and sunny I decided to pay the “Dean of Guides” Frank Pisciotta a visit on Monday in the greater Truckee area. We fished a little in the afternoon, and then checked up on some spots, doing a little scouting and a general analysis of the current conditions. It was beautiful out with decent fishing to make it...

Matt “Gilligan” Koles Reports on 2.9.2016

High pressure this week, or maybe until the end of the month. Not good for our snowpack, but we will have, or looks like we will have a solid month, weather wise, of good winter fishing.

It’s been cold at night, typical when the nights are cloud free, but warm during the day. When it hits 50 at Lake Tahoe-Truckee during the winter, it’s warm. It will be...

Truckee River Fly Fishing Report

Matt “Giligan” Koles Reports on 2.2.2016

Things got real big over the weekend. Flows on the Truckee River got up over 2,000 cfs here in the Hirsch, and over 3,000 through Reno pretty much overnight on Friday. Heavy, heavy rains.

We haven’t seen flows that big since winter 2012. Flows like that are usually a fairly common occurrence every winter, we just haven’t had those pulsing flows in a while- been no snow to melt.

Flows have come back down almost as quickly as they’ve come up. 585 cfs today here at Hirschdale, a slight tint and good to go. Anytime you can get on the Truckee after a big push, you will have good fishing. This week will be good. High pressure is setting in, kind of a bummer, as we need all the rain and snow we can get, but we will have mostly sunny blue bird/ good balmy days of fishing. Streamers and nymphing with all the usual stuff will get it done. The California side is good to go now, deeper in Nevada should be good and more clear by mid to late week.

The streamer clinic is postponed for a bit. Can’t make any dates as folks have been calling booking guide trips. We’ll do it though…

The Little Truckee River is fishing good if you can get out there. You will need a higher clearance 4X4 if you plan on fishing any of the upper stuff. Bring a shovel too.

Matt “Gilligan” Koles reports on 1.19.2016

We’ve been getting storms like every other day. Warmer storms this week will add some volume to the Truckee River. 175 cfs here today, we’ll see how far she goes up this week.

The fishing is very good on the Truckee River. Good for mid-Janurary. Warmer storms usually mean good fishing. Night time temps don’t get to cold, and it can get up into the 40’s...

Matt Heron Reports on 1.14.2015

Fishing on both rivers has continued to improve quite a bit since frigid temps slammed us on News Years weekend. Although it’s still cold with consistent snow here and there, we’ve had a lot of days in the 30s.

This has been key, and these are the days you want to be on the water. The midge hatches have been down right amazing this year, and if you’re really lucky...

Matt Koles reports on 12.29.2015

Cold is the word this week.

After a very cold weekend we have warmed a bit. Not much, but enough to melt some of the anchor ice/ shelf ice, along the Truckee River. Kinda feel sorry for anyone that tried to fish the river this last weekend, just way to cold. Things have warmed a bit and afternoon sunshine should thaw things out and get some fish moving around....

Matt “ Gilligan” Koles reports on 12.15.2015

We are experiencing descent snows in Tahoe for the first time in 3 years. Decent snows, not huge for Tahoe standards. After todays storm we will be right around 80% of average annual snowfall in most parts of the Northern Sierra’s. The Truckee River watershed is looking good.

Last weeks storm came in very warm and we got a lot of rain before it turned...

Matt Heron Fly Fishing Reports on 12/10/2015:

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Some big news out of the Truckee/Tahoe area this morning. After over a year, there is finally water flowing out of Lake Tahoe again! Yes, it’s only 5 CFS but we’ll take all the help we can get.

With that said, the weather has been the talk of the down lately in the fishing world. With two small storms,...

Matt Gilligan Koles Reports on 12.3.2015

Warming up, thawing out, and waiting for El Nino to roll in.

The Truckee River

has been very cold, low flows, and massive anchor ice forming. It has not been a good week to fish the river. With the low flows and extremely low air temps this last week, anchor ice has formed on almost it’s entire length. That was the coldest we’ve been since ’13. It was -14...

Matt “Gilligan” Koles Reports on 11.19.2015

Pyramid Lake

has been very good if you time it right. When we’ve had these storms rolling through, the fishing has been very good, before, during, and after. When it has cleared and warmed back up it has been slow. Storms and wind are your friend at Pyramid Lake. As long as you can handle the weather when it’s stormy the fishing is pretty consistent. When...