Welp, Indian summer is done. Cold here in the mountains on the the Truckee River. Good news though, this week will be warm and cloudy. That will be good for just about everything, anywhere on the river. It'll get us out of this stagnant, cold sunny pattern that we slipped in too. Have a dry fly rod, streamer rod, and nymph rod, because they will all be good this week. Flows are still right around 400 cubes here in the Hirsch, and around 500 out East on the Nevada side of the Truckee River. Kinda waiting on El Niño. If we do have a wet warm Winter, that's really good news for our fishing. The Truckee's good when she's pumping.    

Little swing in the weather on the Truckee River. Pretty warm and sunny last week, but this week looks like old fashioned Truckee Fall weather. The change will usually get them trouts feeding. Look for the streamer fishing to improve this week, the dry fly fishing and everything else. Flows are pretty good, about 400 cubes here in the Hirsch, and not much difference all the way down river. Flows are pretty good out on the Little Truckee River. That will be a great place to do some dry fly fishing until the snow flys and you can't drive there. Fun overall time to fish before Winter sets in.

Great Fall fishing on the Truckee River. Bummer, Niners lost, but at least the Eagles lost also.  Pretty good flows, nice warm weather. Little too warm for the streamer and dry fly fishing, but nymphing is off the hook, no pun intended. Looking like Indian Summer this week, so probably more of the same. Week after next looks like we will get in the 40's. Enjoy this sunshine while it lasts. So much of the same... Nymphing will be the way to go. Dry dropper rigs. Anything with a little beatis nymph near the bottom. Still a lot of baby crayfish out, them will work too. So I wouldn't expect any good dry or streamer fishing to happen until the weather changes. Wouldn't say you can't try, but you're gonna work real hard for them, especially the streamers. Until we can get some good consistent cloud cover don't expect much. Same with on the dry fly front. Then you get this very short window when the weather changes on the Ca side, and that window will last all Winter on the Nevada side.  

Great solid fishing on the Truckee River. October's a great month. Little warm this weekend for the clinics, but now looks like we'll be getting some old fashioned October mountain weather. That means you have a solid month of really good fishing on the Ca side, and all winter on the Nevada side. We get our days here in Ca in the Winter, but Nevada is where it's at in the Winter. If we do have an El Niño Winter, then expect big warm storms. It won't be as cold and the Ca side will fish good too.  Right now, well, just waiting for next week when I can get more serious on the streamer fishing. I'll have some trips coming up where we just throw the meat and that's super fun. You're just out hunting trout, looking for that big buck. Thanks for all that attended the clinics. I'll have an intro to the Nevada side through the Nature Conservancy clinic in November.

This is it, the month most trout anglers wait for, October. October on the Truckee River is about as sweet as it can be. You get the cooler weather, the colors, and of course, trouts fattening up for Winter. Probably have a dusting of snow on the high peaks to look at too after this weekend. We'll have some blue wing olive days, streamers days, and just good old fashioned Fall fishing. Both sides of the Truckee River are fishing great. Anywhere you go really. Out East, through Reno, and around here in Ca. I have 2 spots for the clinic on October 8th.