Matt Heron Reports on May 28th, 2026 TRUCKEE RIVER REPORT: Wow, what a difference a few weeks makes. The time is now! The Truckee River water temps are in the 40s in the morning and getting ...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports on May 25th, 2025 Things are firing off on the Truckee River. Great weather for Memorial Day weekend. Heading right into Summer. June will be a great month. Warm we...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles reports on March 26th, 2025 Truckee River Fly Fishing Report March 26 2025 March 26, 2025 Spring is over for another 2 weeks, ugh. Good news is the fishing will be awe...
Matt Heron reports on February 12th, 2025 Well, winter has finally hit the peaks in Lake Tahoe and the Truckee River area. It only took until February. Better late than never as they say. We’ll tak...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles reporst on February 12th, 2025 Been a cold week on the Truckee River. Lots of rain and snow though the next few days, and some warmer temps on out. These low temps mainly kep...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles reports on January 18th, 2025 Cold nights, warm afternoons on the Truckee River. Upper teens in Truckee at night, 40's in the afternoons. Lets look at that... When it's reall...
Matt Heron Reports on December 16th, 2024 As I write this report, it’s finally white in Truckee. This weekend’s storm brought the first significant snowfall of the season. We’re fully expect...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports on December 16th, 2024 Finally getting some snow in Tahoe It's stacked up for mid-December. Not much down here in Hirschdale, but we usually don't get too much anyways...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports on Nov. 10th, 2024 Looks a little more like winter, and less like fall for the rest of the month, on the Truckee River. Good, because that'll kick the streamer fishing...
Matt Heron Reports on November 8th, 2024 We are back in business! If you know me well, you know that with few exceptions, October and November are my two favorite months of the year. Well so f...
Hot, hot and hot! I’ll start with a Truckee fishing report and end with Hoot Owl closure updates. Wow, what a difference a few weeks makes. We thought last week was warm, but were we wrong. It got ...
The Little Truckee With hot temperatures affecting Northern California, most bug activity on the Little Truckee will be in the mornings and evenings. Cash and Owen from LCO fished it mid-mornin...
Gilligan's Guide Service Flows are steadily coming down on the Truckee River and the fishing is very good. Bugs of every kind are out. PMDs, stoneflies, green drakes, caddis, and a whole smorgasbo...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports 05/29/24: Truckee Snapshot Truckee Snapshot: Flows are still up on the Truckee River. Not too big, but for a lot of folks, hard to manage. Look for soft water trout...
Matt Heron Reports 05/29/24: Truckee River Area Truckee River Area: Again, not a lot to report as far as changes to the river this week. We’re continuing to see a Yo-Yo pattern with snowmelt and...
Matt Heron Reports on 5.8.2024 Truckee River: After an unusual run of three weeks on the road, it was great to get on the Truckee again, and boy did it deliver. While I was gone, I chatted wit...
Nor Cal Trout Fishing - July 2023 Truckee River: The Truckee has been fishing consistently throughout the summer! Both water color and temperature have been stellar. Flows were a little high ear...
Lost Coast Outfitters Fishing Report 4/15/23 Spring Fishing has begun! We are stoked to have the report back up and running. We are now working with additional independent guides throughout Norther...
Lost Coast Outfitters Fishing Report 12/14/22 Upper Sacramento: It’s winter, who knew?! Access is tough on upper river just due to snow. If you’re sniffing around the Upper Sac, stay below Conant ...
Truckee Fishing Report 7/31/2021 Click on any fly described in this report to be directed to purchase them on our website. This report was submitted by Jeremy Wright a Truckee based guide. To be ...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Report on 9.2.2020 Summer hanging on. Record heat for the weekend. Though it does feel like summer is running out of gas. Mornings are cool, afternoons are hot, but that’ll ch...
Matt Gilligan Koles Reports on 6.8.20 Crazy weather. 80 the other day, snowing yesterday. Been a weird spring weather wise. We haven’t really seen the heat yet, and looking to stay somewhat mild to...
Matt Heron Reports on 6.3.2020 Well it looks like summer may have finally arrived in the Truckee area. I wouldn't be surprised if mother nature has one more curve ball for us, but for the most par...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports on 5.27.20 Heating up on the Truckee River. It will get hot this week. When it’s 90 in the Hirsch, it’s hot. Upper 90’s in Reno. There’s about 10 miles between us and...
Matt Heron Reports on 3.10.2020 We actually got some weather this past week. Saturday and Sunday a storm rolled in and gave us 3-6 inches of the white stuff in Truckee. It isn’t much but we’ll tak...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports on 3.10.2020 Coming into Spring on the Truckee River. It’s already about mid-March, and from now into Summer is the time to be on this river. Spring is my favorite ti...
Matt Heron Reports on 3.4.20 We actually got some weather this past week. Saturday and Sunday a storm rolled in and gave us 3-6 inches of the white stuff in Truckee. It isn’t much but we’ll take i...
Matt Gilligan Koles Reports on 2.27.20 Mild weather for the Truckee River. Having a long, mild, dry streak here in Tahoe/ Reno. This is very typical to get prolonged dry spells in the Sierra’s, b...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports on 2.20.20 Good solid fishing on the Truckee River. Feels almost like spring in Tahoe/ Reno. Super balmy for mid-Feb. When I say good fishing, I’m talking the Nevad...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports on 2.10.2020 Mild weather on the Truckee River. Looks like this month may stay dry and mild. Hopefully, we can get some storms in March. Reno hit 70 last week. Most s...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports on 2.6.2020 Record weekend temps and now single digits. We set some records over the weekend for daytime temps. Today, it’s in the single digits with an East wind, ...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports on 1.27.20 Like really good. We had a few great streamer days, but the dry fly fishing has been where it’s at- on the lower Truckee River in Nevada. Yep, I said dry ...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports on 1.22.20 Good winter fishing on the Truckee River. With the exception of a few days last week when it got real cold, fishing has been pretty good. The great news ...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports on The clinic on the 1st is full. 49ers are back in the NFC title game, and we’re sticking some big browns on the lower Truckee River. Can’t complain. A few warm da...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles reports on 1.6.2020 Good last week on the Truckee River. Warm temps got the fishing going. We had some days in Reno near 60. Gonna get colder this week, not too bad though f...
Matt Giligan Koles Reports on 12.10.2019 More rain and snow for the Truckee River. Not much here in the Hirsch, but some good snow up top. Mainly rain here. Little bump in the flows, big bump do...
Matt Gilligan Koles Reports on 11.24.2019 Looks like we’re gonna have a winter after all. Big changes in the weather. We went from t’shirts to jackets in one day, and looking like it’s staying th...
Matt Gilligan Koles Reports on 11.19.19 Finally a change in the weather. Not a big change, but at least it feels like fall now, or early winter? Seems like it’s always feast or famine in Ca. You j...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports on 10.22.2019 Rolling through October on the Truckee River. Not much weather wise going on up here yet. Some days lots of wind, cold at night, nice in the afternoons. ...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports on 10.14.19Nice balmy fall weather on the Truckee River. Cold as balls in the morning. Warms up nice in the afternoon. Typical fall weather in Tahoe/Reno. As far as...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles reports 9.29.19 Crazy September weather. Had one of those, didn’t think I could make it to the take out days this weekend because of the heat days. Waking up today with a fe...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports on 11.12.19 Less like summer and more like fall. Much cooler the last few days. High’s in the 60’s, colder overnight. Not too hot in Reno either. Reno hit 100 degree...
Matt "Gilligan" Koles Reports on 8.29.2019 Last big weekend of the summer on the Truckee River. After this weekend, and after the burners leave, we’ll have the place to ourselves for awhile. Burn...
Matt Koles reports on 7.11.19 Truckee River Fly Fishing Report July 4th has come and gone. It’s officially summer in Tahoe. Go in Safeway in Truckee and you’ll see why. Flows are perfect on the T...
Matt Koles Reports on 6.26.2019 Flows have dropped on the Truckee River. Down to about 1,400 cfs here in the Hirsch. Not bad. That will open up a lot more water for us to fish. 1,400 k is still h...
Truckee River Kinda rolling right into summer on the Truckee River. Flows were slowly coming down. That opened up a lot more fishable water down the entire river. It was about 1,700 k here in th...
Matt Koles reports on 6.14.19 Not a better time to be up on the Truckee River. Weather-wise, it’s perfect. Still cold at night, about in the 70’s during the day. Not too hot, not too cold. It’s al...
Jon Baiocchi reports on 6.14.19 The phone has been ringing of the hook the last couple of weeks and folks are itching to get out and fish, unfortunately, prime time is still a ways off for great t...
