Matt “Gilligan” Koles Reports on 2.9.2016High 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, weat...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report Matt “Giligan” Koles Reports on 2.2.2016Things 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 t...
Matt “Gilligan” Koles reports on 1.19.2016We’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...
Matt Heron Reports on 1.14.2015Fishing 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...
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 12.15.2015We 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 rig...
Matt Heron Fly Fishing Reports on 12/10/2015:http://mattheronflyfishing.com/Releases/kode88/Some big news out of the Truckee/Tahoe area this morning. After over a year, there is finally water flow...
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 11.19.2015 Pyramid Lakehas 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 aft...
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 Koles reports on 11.4.2015:It’s looking like November will be nothing like October at least temperature wise. This month was not warm, but more like hot in the Truckee-Tahoe-Reno area. We h...
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 Heron Reports on 10.8.2015Although it’s been a while, we’ve a had an amazing fall on the rivers since our last report. There is no question that winter is around the corner in the Truckee a...
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 9.9.2015September is rolling on by. Still no rain to speak of, hot this week actually, but things look very promising this winter.The Truckee River is still flowing...
Matt Heron reports on 8.27.2015Things have finally changed for the better some the last few weeks. Much colder nights have dropped water temps on the Big T below Boca much earlier in the season tha...
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 reports on 8.20.2015The cork will be put in the flows out of Stampede on the Little Truckee River for the restoration/ enhancement project happening out there starting tomorrow, 8/16. Th...
Matt “Giligan” Koles Reports on 8.11.15Afternoon rain/ thunderstorms continue all over the Reno-Tahoe-Truckee area. All over the Eastern Sierra’s.That’s the story of our summer, and It’s saving ou...
Matt Heron Report on 8.6.2015As you might all imagine, the Big T is still shutdown to fishing. What that said, there is hope on the horizon. Fall is just around the corner and that will bring only ...
Matt “Gilligan” Koles Reports on 7.30.2015Flows on the Little Truckee River have now dropped to 21 cfs. To low to fish in my opinion. Please stay off the Little Truckee River and the main Truckee R...
Matt “Giligan” Koles reports on 7.8.15Finally a little cooler weather and afternoon thunderstorms have been helping.If you can find some places to fish other than the Truckee River good on you.High...
Matt “Giligan” Koles Reports:Air temps and water temps are way up everywhere in the Truckee Area. Outta sight daytime temps, record breaking type shit the last few weeks.Again: DO NOT FISH THE TRU...
Matt “Giligan” Koles Reports on 6.25.15:It’s looking like California Dept of Fish and Wildlife is going to close drought stricken rivers in California by next week. The Truckee River will of cours...
Matt Heron Reports on 6.25.15Insert “Oh how the times have changed” quote here. It’s been a while since our last report and man have they changed. As many of you know by now, the Truckee river has...
Matt Koles Reports on 6/8/15If you noticed the Truckee River fishing report has been changed too, Truckee-Tahoe Area Fishing Report. I just cannot condone fishing the river at these flows at leas...
Matt Koles ReportsWe all knew the ass end was going to drop out, and yes flows out of Boca have been cut to 35cfs, putting the Truckee River down to about 135cfs in Hirschdale, and about 200 cfs...
The rain last week gave the Truckee a much needed flush of fresh water through the system and the fish and bugs seemed to appreciate it. The storms did pump some color in the river from a few di...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service Looks like the May monsoons have ended. We had rain in and around Truckee for the last 10 days. Heavy, heavy rain at times adding a lot of water to our area an...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service Can you believe it has snowed more the last month than pretty much all year? Anything helps, but it ain’t gonna do much.Flows are about 280 here in the Hirsc...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service Flows are up a bit since last report, about 320 cfs here in the Hirsch, a just barely floatable flow, and something I have been taking advantage of while it...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide ServiceA little rain and snow around the Tahoe area on the Truckee River. Some much needed water getting added into the river this week.About 280 cfs around Hirschdal...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide ServiceFlows have been cut in half on the Truckee River coming out of Boca. Thank God, because there was no way with Boca being as low as it is that we would have any...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service I guess it’s spring here on out. Summer will come early this year. Get your fishing in on the Truckee River now until July.I do not know when the flows will ...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide ServiceCold and wind and snow in the Tahoe region on the Truckee River. It has been very cold the last few days. Snow is on the way today and more could be on the way n...
Pyramid Lake right now can be a numbers game if you hit it right. Pyramid strain cutts are cruising the beaches looking for mates, spawning time you know. It still can be tough if you have no wind ...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service More and more more summer weather it the Tahoe area, geez, it feels like early June up here and it’s the last week of March. Things may get interesting come Ap...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide ServiceA little rain and snow in the Tahoe area today, but I do mean little. Fishing is good in both states. Lot’s of stuff starting to happen on the river bug wise. Ev...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide ServiceI think unofficially spring has sprung about everywhere in Northern Ca. Warm days, cold nights, no rain or snow, pretty much sums things up weather wise. My advi...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide ServiceIt has been cold this week on the Truckee River. 8 degrees this morning in the Hirsch. It is going to get warm though through this weekend. Mother Nature will on...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide ServiceWell, we went from t-shirt weather back to freezing your ass off weather in less than 24 hours. I told everyone that winter is far from over. All we need now is ...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide ServiceThe Truckee River is fishing very well for this time of year. The river feels like about mid-April, meaning the river is fishing how it would early spring, not l...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service Like most of Northern California we got hit pretty good with mostly rain, but some snow, mainly above 8000k here in the Lake Tahoe- Truckee- Reno area this last...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide ServiceOn the the Truckee River the same old same old. High pressure off the coast the last 5 weeks has kept conditions calm, stagnant, and balmy for mid-winter in the ...
Matt Koles, Gilligan’s Guide Service Way above average daytime highs here in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. Not to good for skiing, but good for fishing. Of course, if we expect to fish this sum...
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 b...
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 ta...
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 fis...
