Pyramid Lake-January/February '24 We have experienced a slow start to the action at Pyramid Lake in 2024, but great fish are being caught by those willing to persevere. Lately the most effective...
Pyramid Fly Co. Reports on 1.15.2020 Things are heating up as we start gaining daylight the Pilot peaks begin sliding into pre spawn. This season we are seeing an awful lot of fish in the 10 poun...
Jim Stimson reports on 3.29.18I believe we have turned the corner on winter. The morning temperatures are still crisp but it warms quickly with the sun being so high in the sky. The month of March ...
John Fochetti reports on 3.22.18Pyramid LakeThe Lake continues to be inconsistent, one day it’s good the next it’s really slow. It is also being strange, on cloudy windy choppy days with low pressu...
John Fochetti Reports on 3.1.2018Fishing is definitely starting to pick up! Good numbers of fish are being caught and big fish are being caught almost daily. Fish seem to be pretty keyed in on chir...
1/26/2018Fishing has been slow, but there some big fish to be caught in the lake.
LCO Reports on 1.4.2017https://www.instagram.com/p/BdEGWelh6CD/?taken-by=sarah_landstromWe had two groups of LCO Employees head up to pyramid lake. Access is limited this year but the lake is produ...
John Fochetti Reports on 10.19.2017Just spoke with John Fochetti and said folks are catching some biggens on Chub patterns on the strip and balanced leaches under an indo.
John Fochetti reports on 4.20.17Fishing has been really good one day and sucked the next. The weather does not seem to be making that much of a difference. One thing I can say for sure is that it’s...
John Fochetti Reports on 2.23.2017 With most of the west coast fishing opportunities practically non-existent, due to a crazy winter with no end in sight, Pyramid Lake has re-opened and the fishing...
This is going to be a great weekend with friends, fishing, great food, drinks, and raising money for Cast Hope on Pyramid Lake, aka Land of the Giants and home to the world’s largest cutthroat. As...
Lost Coast Outfitters reports on 2.16.17It seems there’s hope that Pyramid may open sooner rather than later. We’ve heard a few rumors and the following is from a KTVN News report, “Tribe officials...
John Fochetti reports on 2.2.17The lake is still closed and the tribe issued a press release today stating that there will be no refunds given for permits. While this may anger some people think ab...
Supposedly there is going to be a press release coming out explaining the lake is closed until sometime in April. The road washouts are not going to be easy to fix. Hopefully, they can get up to sp...
John Fochetti reports on 1.19.17The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe says Pyramid Lake remains closed to fishing and other recreational activities. Permits are not being sold to allow fishing at this time...
1.12.17The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe closed Pyramid Lake yesterday, to all fishing and boating, due to hazardous road conditions. It’s not clear when the lake will reopen. Check out the news releas...
Gilligan reports on 1.5.17First report for ’17, and all I can say is heavy, heavy dumpage of snow here for the Truckee River.The storm door has opened. We have over a foot here in the Hirsch, which...
Matt Koles Reports on 12.1.2016Looking and feeling a lot like winter on the ole Truckee River and Pyramid Lake in Nevada.We had some pretty good snowfall and temps are for continued cold in our are...
Matt Koles Reports 11.24.16It’s more winter than fall on the Truckee River and Pyramid Lake Nevada. Cold and snow and rain, hopefully it will keep coming.Good news for both venues as the weather he...
Doug Ouellette Reports on 11.24.2016The numbers of 15 pound plus Lahontan cutthroat trout this November of 2016 at Pyramid Lake Nevada has been the biggest numbers of big fish since their extrapola...
Matt Gilligan Koles Reports on 11.17.2016Much colder temps this week on the Truckee River and Pyramid Lake Nevada.No snow yet, but the forecast models look promising and all we need is the storm do...
Fishing continues to be good, I am cautious to say great because its not a numbers game right now. There is however a really good chance to hook into a trophy sized trout of a lifetime. This past w...
Doug Ouellette Reports on 11.2.2016Pyramid Lake continues to produce several BIG cutthroat from shoreline flyfishers. Retrieving Popcorn Beetles, Boobies, Buggers and Tui Chub patterns have been wo...
Doug Oullette Reports on 10.27.2016Some BIG fish are starting to come off the beaches at Pyramid Lake. This week there has been at least 8 fish released over 15 pounds! These fish have been caught ...
The Pyramid Lakeopener was this last weekend.Big winds for this years opener put a wrench in our fishing. Normally some wind is good for Pyramid Lake but not when your out on your tubes, or in a bo...
Doug Ouellette Reports on 10.6.2016Pyramid Lake OpenerWater temperatures cooling down with storms - Surface 68°, 10ft. 66°, 20ft. 64°Opening week at Pyramid Lake produced many smaller cutthroat tr...
Matt Gilligan Koles Reports on 9.29.2016So long summer. We had a good water year once again, and fishing was just like every other good summer before. If you made your way out to fish with me, than...
Matt Koles reports on 9.8.2016Summer is a done deal, kids are back in school, the river is pretty much empty, the burners are gone, and it’s time to decompress.Fishing on the Truckee River is very ...
Matt “Gilligan” Koles Reports on 8.25.2016Little cooler temps this week than last, and finally, a few afternoon thunderstorms helping to cool things off.August is always kinda rough with the hot we...
Doug Ouellette Reports on 5.26.2016With the cool wet weather patterns, the fishing at Pyramid Lake has been very good for the last couple of weeks. Several Pilot Peak strain cutthroat have been cau...
John Fochetti Reports on 4.7.2016 jf.clearwaterlodge@gmail.comFishing this last week has been pretty good considering how nice the weather was. I saw the largest number of fish to hand in a day thi...
John Fochetti reports in 3.31.2016Clearwater Lodge 916-337-8598 www.clearwaterlodge.comThe last few weeks have been up and down, there has been some great days and some very slow days. When there h...
John Fochetti Reports 3.10.2016The lake definitely back…on fire that is… know I said it had slowed a little bit last week, and it did for like 3 days. Its been crazy good again this last week with ...
Jim Stimson Reports on 3.9.2016Fishing at Pyramid Lake is always entertaining. I was there last week with a buddy John Fochetti. We were standing on ladders, not too far apart, exchanging stories a...
John Fochetti Reports on 3.2.2016 Phone 916.337.8598Pyramid was a bit slower this last week due to the nice weather. With no wind and bright sunny skies early morning and evening produced the bit...
John Fochetti Fly Fishing reports on 2.25.2016916.337.8598The lake has been on fire the last few weeks. Double digit numbers have been more common than not. Eight out of the last ten days on the w...
Matt Koles reports on 12.29.2015Cold 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. K...
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 be...
Matt Gilligan Koles Reports on 11.12.2015 Pyramid Lake:It finally feels like the old Pyramid Lake I remember in November, you know, freezing your ass off and catching big cutts. It is winter now ...
Matt “Gilligan” Koles reports on 10.21.2015 http://www.gilligansguideservice.com/The fly fishing is starting to get a little more interesting out at Pyramid Lake in Nevada. Interesting meaning the ...
Matt Gilligan Koles Reports on 10.15.15 The Truckee River The Truckee is holding pretty steady at about 100 cfs here in the Hirsch, and a bit higher down towards Nevada. Not bad. I thought it woul...
Matt “Gilligan” Koles Reports on 9.23.2015It is fall in the Tahoe basin. This means cold nights and warm days, or the typical “Indian Summer” weather pattern that we seem to experience every year. ...
Matt “Gilligan” Koles Reports on 9.15.2015Looks like the heat wave has broke. Likely we won’t see 80’s or 90’s in Truckee until next May.Very good news out on the Little Truckee River, flows are up...
Matt “Gilligan” Koles Reports on 8.26.2015Flows are still low out on the Little Truckee for the enhancement-restoration project. Please do not go fish the LT until flows come back up once the proje...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service Pyramid Lake is hit and miss. Usually spring is the best time to fish the lake, but with this warm sunny weather fishing can be tough. If the weather forecast ...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide ServicePretty good fishing happening in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area right now. We’ll see how long the flows on the river can hold out, but for now it’s good. We fi...
Doug Ouellette, Calvada Fly FishingLast week with the recent storms that moved in the fishing was very good, however this week a high pressure ridge settled down on the area with little or no wind....
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide ServicePyramid Lake is really starting to shape up for the annual great spring fishing. Pyramid Lake strain cutties are cruising in the shallows every day now. Sometime...
