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 would be much worse come October. Cool nights, warm days right now. The best fishing is happening mid-morning and again in the evening. Blue wing olives are the main deal. Some other bugs in the mix, but...

Matt “Gilligan” Koles Reports on 9.23.2015

It 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. Several river clean-ups have taken place which I love to see. A big thank you to all those that pitched in. The Truckee River right now as I write this is on the cusp of what most would consider to be...

Matt “Gilligan” Koles Reports on 9.15.2015

Looks 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 to 115 cfs. After being at 16 cfs for the enhancement work, flows are back up and the fish are good and fat and healthy. Baetis are pop’n, along with small fall caddis. The caddis are about a sz #16. I...

Matt “Gilligan” Koles Reports on 8.26.2015

Flows 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 project is done. 2 more weeks maybe? Our local TU #103, and with help of many, many volunteers added spawning gravel yesterday to part of the upper stretch of river. It was good to see so many folks out...

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 says sun and no wind, go early, or late. If the forecast call for some wind and some clouds than you may have an all day bite. Fish are cruising in very shallow water. Some bigs have been caught, but...

Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service

Pretty 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 finally have an unsettled weather pattern instead of the bright blue bird days we have been getting, meaning the fishing will be good on the river and at the lake all week. We’ll probably have some good...

Doug Ouellette, Calvada Fly Fishing

Last 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. Because of these conditions Pyramid was very slow this week. On average, anglers were only able to scratch out a couple of fish a day. Pyramid Lake like other stillwaters can be very sensitive to...

Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service

At Pyramid Lake the east wind blew good yesterday and almost everyone I knew caught fish. The wind brought the fish up onto the beaches. The weather will be much more conducive for fly fishing at Pyramid Lake this week instead of the sunny high pressure ridge we’ve had. Of course if you can get your ass out of bed and fish first light, great, if not, stick...

Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service

Not much change since last report. We are experiencing very warm unseasonable temperatures here in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. In fact we are setting records this weekend. The recorded high temps we are breaking are from the same weekend last year, go figure. Are we doomed with this cycle of high pressure? Hard to say, but the high pressure ridge builds...