Truckee River Fly Fishing Report January 27 2023
Cold on the Truckee River. Pretty much summed up the week. Very cold lows in Truckee, and Reno....
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report January 20 2023
Welp, that was fun. Pretty much 10 weeks of snow. When we get it, we get it. We got pounded....
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report January 14 2023
More rain and snow for the Truckee River, laughable at this point. We need/needed it though....
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report January 8 2023
Here we go again. Another big AR on the way for the Truckee River. Northern Ca has been getting...
Winter Streamer Clinic January 28 2023
Winter Streamer Clinic Saturday, January 28th. Hopefully the weather cooperates, lol. Been a...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report January 2 2023
What a crazy winter on the Truckee River already. I'd say we're doing pretty good snow wise...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report December 25 2022
Happy Holidays! The calm before the storm. Hasn't been much to report. It's been very cold and...
Winter Rates
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Truckee River Fly Fishing Report December 12 2022
Major snow for the Truckee River. 2-3 feet here in Hirschdale, and we're only about 5,500 feet....
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report December 4 2022
Wet and soggy and snowy on the Truckee River. Some good rain and snow the last few days. More...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report November 28 2022
Balmy weather on the Truckee River. Things are a changing though. Storms are in the forecast...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report November 21 2022
Coming out of the cold snap on the Truckee River. Teens still in the mornings, but a nice...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report November 14 2022
Winter conditions on the Truckee River. Cold, cold, cold. It's Wintertime in Truckee. Ain't...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report November 6 2022
Winter has set in, with more rain and snow on the way for the Truckee River. A very good start...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report October 31 2022
Buckle up, weathers changing. Gonna get us a good dose of Winter this week on the Truckee...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report October 23 2022
From Summer to more like Winter weather on the Truckee River. This should kick the fly fishing...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report October 15 2022
Continued warm Fall weather on the Truckee River. Unseasonable warm weather. Hopefully, we can...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report October 11 2022
Good solid fly fishing on the Truckee River. Little cooler weather which is nice, and feeling...
Euro Nymph Streamer Clinic October 22 2022
This is a combo Euro Nymph, and Streamer Clinic on the Truckee River. This class will go for 6...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report October 2 2022
Fall fly fishing on the Truckee River. Good fishing and great weather. Maybe a little too great...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report September 27 2022
Great weather, good fly fishing on the Truckee River. Flows are still very good, and the...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report September 24 2022
Great fly fishing on the Truckee River. Kinda don't get much better. Perfect Fall weather, good...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report September 21 2022
What a great September for fly fishing on the Truckee River. Little glitch in the system on the...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report September 17 2022
Mixed weather on the Truckee River. Nice in the mornings, and heavy smoke in the afternoons....
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report September 13 2022
The good news first, cool Fall weather on the Truckee River. Record high's last week, and now...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report September 5 2022
Major heat wave all over California. Especially hot for us here on the Truckee River. Topping...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report August 29 2022
Pretty much the same ole thing on the Truckee River. Good solid fishing in the mornings, slow...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report August 25 2022
Almost Fall fishing on the Truckee River. Sure, we have aways to go, but Summer ain't got much...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report August 20 2022
August continues to impress on the Truckee River. Historically, August has been a good month...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report August 17 2022
Continued solid fishing on the Truckee River. Nice and cool in the mornings, and warm, too hot,...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report August 12 2022
Continued nice weather, and good solid fishing on the Truckee River. Lows, are getting...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-8-8-2022
What a difference between this summer and last on the Truckee River. Low 80's, and no smoke....
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-8-4-22
Much cooler weather this week on the Truckee River. Still hot in the afternoons, high 80's,...
Tight Line-Euro Nymph Clinic-8-21-22
Tight Line Nymph Clinic on the Truckee River, Saturday August 20th is now Sold out. Another...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-7-31-22
Still hot, but not as bad as last week on the Truckee River. We're getting some afternoon...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-7-25-22
It got hot. The heat has finally arrived on the Truckee River. 90 this week in Truckee, 100 in...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-7-17-22
Good flows and solid fishing on the Truckee River. No smoke yet this Summer. That's been the...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-7-14-22
Rolling through July on the Truckee River. Good solid fishing. Flows have been steady at around...
Truckee River Fishing Report-7-7-22
Good solid fishing on the Truckee River Can't believe, I'd say the weather's actually been...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-7-1-22
4th of July week on the Truckee River. Don't go to Safeway in Truckee, unless you want to have...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-6-27-22
Good solid fishing on the Truckee River. Mornings to about lunch, is your best time to go out...
Truckee River Fishing Report-6-24-22
Still not too hot weather wise on the Truckee River. Nice and cool at night, and not too hot in...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-6-20-22
Good fishing and cool weather on the Trucker River. The weathers been the big thing. Cool...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-6-12-22
Pretty great on the Truckee River. Fishing has been on fire for the last few weeks. I don't say...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-6-5-22
Great fishing on the Truckee River. I don't say it much, usually we have to put in work on this...
Truckee River Fishing Report-6-1-22
Well, it's officially June, and the start of Summer fishing on the Truckee River. Didn't feel...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-5-27-22
Summer weather on the Truckee River. We look to have some cooling for the weekend, and back to...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-5-23-22
Sunny solid weather, and healthy flows here on the Truckee River. Good Spring weather, cold...
Truckee River Fishing Report-5-15-22
Spring has finally sprung on the Truckee River. Cold and wind for all of April, and now, well,...
Truckee River Fishing Report-4-7-22
More wind for the Truckee River Fly Fishing Report. Winds been pretty gnarly lately. Since the...
Truckee River Fishing Report-5-2-22
Windy, but nice weather this week for the Truckee River Fly Fishing Report. Always windy in the...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-4-27-22
Pretty good Spring fishing on the Truckee River. At least it feels like Spring, not Winter now....
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-4-19-22
Very much needed rain and snow for the Truckee River. Heavy rain and snow this week and last....
Truckee River Fishing Report-4-12-22
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Sotar Strike Raft-13,6″ For Sale
For Sale: Sotar Strike raft. This raft was made in 2019, and is a 13,6.' The perfect fly...
Tight Line-Euro-Nymph Clinic-4-23-22
Tight Line Nymph Clinic on the Truckee River, Saturday April, 23rd. Seems like everyone has...
Truckee River Fishing Report-4-4-22
This is a good week for the Truckee River Fly Fishing Report. Generally speaking, when the...
Truckee River Fishing Report-3-28-22
Good Spring fly fishing on the Truckee River. Spring's always pretty good. Not a lot of...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report-3-23-22
We're enjoying some Spring weather on the Truckee River. Can't complain when the suns out and...
TRUCKEE RIVER FLY FISHING: REPORT-3-7-22
Finally some weather, not much, but it’s sparked some good fishing on the Truckee River....
STREAMER CLINIC-3-19-22
STREAMER CLINIC, TRUCKEE RIVER, SATURDAY MARCH 19TH.Going to ramp it up a bit this year on the...
TRUCKEE RIVER FLY FISHING: REPORT-2-14-22
Much of the same still here on the Truckee River. If you like 60’s in Truckee in February, well...
TRUCKEE RIVER FLY FISHING REPORT-3-12-22
THINGS ARE FIRING OFF ON THE DRY FLY SIDE OF THINGS ON THE TRUCKEE RIVER. LET’S KEEP THIS TO A...
TRUCKEE RIVER FLY FISHING REPORT-3-15-22
MARCH IS ALWAYS A GREAT MONTH FOR FLY FISHING ON THE TRUCKEE RIVER. Trouts are coming out of...
TRUCKEE RIVER FLY FISHING REPORT-3-20-22
Good, good, good on the Truckee River. March is just a great month. Trouts get out of the cold...
Nevada Fly Fishing Report-10-6-15
The opener, and the days that followed were nothing short of epic at Pyramid Lake in Nevada....
Truckee River Fishing Report-10-5-15
Very cool to cold fall weather in the Reno-Lake Tahoe-Truckee area. The Pyramid Lake opener was...
Pyramid Lake Clinics, October 31 and November 14th
Doug O and I will be holding two separate Pyramid Lake Clinics at Pyramid Lake in Nevada on...
Truckee River Fishing Report-9-25-15
Cold nights and warm days, or the typical “Indian Summer” weather pattern that we seem to...
Pyramid Lake Outlook-Fishing Report
Pyramid Lake in Nevada opens October 1st. Changes have been made to the regs out at the lake...
Truckee River Fishing Report-9-17-15
Cold and a little rain with a dusting of snow up top. Pine needles in the drive way, and the...
Truckee River Fishing Report-9-14-15
Looks like the heat wave has broke. Likely we won't see 80's or 90's in Truckee until next May....
Truckee River Fishing Report-9-9-15
September is rolling on by. Still no rain to speak of, hot this week actually, but things look...
Truckee River Fishing Report-9-1-15
Nights have cooled and we are in our usual Indian Summer type Tahoe weather pattern. Lows have...
Truckee River Fishing Report-8-24-15
Flows are still low out on the Little Truckee for the enhancement-restoration project. Please...
Truckee River Fishing Report-8-18-15
Halfway done with August, I'm ready for summer to end and fall to begin. There are a few...
Truckee River Fishing Report-8-15-15
The cork will be put in the flows out of Stampede on the Little Truckee River for the...
Truckee-Lake Tahoe-Reno-Fishing Report-8-9-15
Afternoon rain/ thunderstorms continue all over the Reno-Tahoe-Truckee area. All over the...
Truckee-Lake Tahoe-Reno-Fishing Report-8-3-15
A little more rain and cooler temps this week are helping. Flows out of Boca have come up a...
Truckee-Tahoe-Reno-Fishing Report-7-29-15
Flows on the Little Truckee River have now dropped to 21 cfs. To low to fish in my opinion....
Truckee-Tahoe-Reno-Fishing Report-7-20-15
Despite the drought, Reno and Tahoe are experiencing 150-200% of average rainfall from June to...
Carp Clinics! August 1st- and 8th
The lower Truckee River East of Reno is loaded with carp. They are super hard to catch with the...
Truckee-Tahoe-Reno-Fishing Report-7-12-15
A week of afternoon rains all over the Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. Pretty crazy really, being that...
Truckee-Tahoe-Reno-Fishing Report-7-5-15
Finally a little cooler weather and afternoon thunderstorms have been helping. If you can find...
Truckee-Tahoe-Fishing Report-7-1-15
Air temps and water temps are way up everywhere in the Truckee Area. Outta sight daytime temps,...
Truckee-Tahoe Area Fishing Report-6-26-15
It's pretty much hot as hell, about as hot as we get here in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee area. Let's...
Truckee-Tahoe Area Fishing Report-6-20-15
It's looking like California Dept of Fish and Wildlife is going to close drought stricken...
Truckee-Tahoe Fishing Report-6-16-15
Flows keep dropping more on the Truckee River. Flows out of Prosser and Boca reservoirs have...
Truckee-Tahoe Area Fishing Report-6-12-15
We did get a good shot of rain this week, not much to make an impact on the level of the area...
Truckee-Tahoe Area Fishing Report 6-8-15
If you noticed the Truckee River fishing report has been changed too, Truckee-Tahoe Area...
Truckee River Fishing Report 6-4-15
We all knew the ass end was going to drop out, and yes flows out of Boca have been cut to...
Truckee River Fishing Report 6-1-15
Not sure how long I can keep posting these, Truckee River Fishing Report's. We have lost a...
Truckee River Fishing Report 5-29-15
June is almost here, summer, and the Truckee River is still flowing. The river is up even more...
Truckee River Fishing Report 5-26-15
Looks the May monsoons have ended. We had rain in and around Truckee for the last 10 days....
Truckee-Tahoe Area Fishing Report-5-23-15
Rain rain and more rain, hard to believe after this shitty winter, but every year it rains or...
Truckee River Fishing Report 5-17-15
Some good rain and snows up here in the Tahoe area, not really enough to add volume to the...
The North Fork of the Yuba River
Still barely hanging on here on the Truckee River. There is rain and snow in the forecast....
Truckee River Fishing Report 5-9-15
Can you believe it has snowed more the last month than pretty much all year? Anything helps,...
Truckee River Fishing Report 5-4-15
Flows are up a bit since last report, about 320 cfs here in the Hirsch, a just barely floatable...
The Other Things.
One nice thing about Truckee-Tahoe, and the Tahoe National Forest is that there are many other...
Truckee River Fishing Report 4-24-15
A little rain and snow around the Tahoe area on the Truckee River. Some much needed water...
Truckee River Fishing Report- Pyramid Lake Fishing Report- 4-20-15
Flows have been cut in half on the Truckee River coming out of Boca. Thank God, because there...
Truckee River Fishing Report 4-16-15
A big shot of cold the last few days. Nasty north wind blowing. Good wind for Pyramid, not so...
Truckee River Fishing Report 4-12-15
I guess it's spring here on out. Summer will come early this year. Get your fishing in on the...
Truckee River Fishing Report 4-7-15
Cold and wind and snow in the Tahoe region on the Truckee River. It has been very cold the last...
Truckee River Fishing Report 4-2-15
Woke up to a dusting of snow in the Hirsch this morning. Winter is not done. The storm door...
Pyramid Lake Fishing Report 3-31-15
It's spring time at the Mid, Pyramid Lake in Nevada. Cutts are cruising the shelf in big big...
Truckee River Fishing Report- Pyramid Lake Fly Fishing Report-3-27-15
More and more more summer weather it the Tahoe area, geez, it feels like early June up here and...
Truckee River Fishing Report 3-23-15
A little rain and snow in the Tahoe area today, but I do mean little. Fishing is good in both...
Truckee River Fishing Report 3-19-15
Been hitting the the Truckee River hard this week and last. I'm thinking everyone knows how low...
Truckee River Fishing Report-Pyramid Lake Fly Fishing Report-3-15-15
Pretty good fishing happening in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area right now. We'll see how long...
Truckee River Fishing Report- Pyramid Lake Fly Fishing Report-3-11-15
Good fishing happening on the Truckee River right now. I wouldn't say it's lights out, but for...
Truckee River Fly Fishing Report 3-8-15
I think unofficially spring has sprung about everywhere in Northern Ca. Warm days, cold nights,...
Truckee River Fishing Report- Pyramid Lake Fly Fishing Report- 3-4-15
H'mm models are pulling back a bit this morning on the precip that should be arriving next...
Truckee River Fishing Report- Pyramid Lake Fly Fishing Report- 3-1-15
The big talk up here is the 27 inches of snow the tops of Alpine and Squaw received over the...
Truckee River Fishing Report- Pyramid Lake Fishing Report- 2-26-15
A foot of snow is expected in Tahoe-Truckee this weekend. Looks like it will even snow on the...
Truckee River Fishing Report- Pyramid Lake Fly Fishing Report- 2-23-15
Well, we went from t-shirt weather back to freezing your ass off weather in less than 24 hours....
Pyramid Lake Clinic- 3-14-15
Doug O and I will be holding a Pyramid Lake Clinic at Pyramid Lake in Nevada on Saturday March...
Truckee River Fishing Report- 2-18-15
Much of the same for the Truckee River. Sunny blue bird days and way above average daytime...
Truckee River Fishing Report- Pyramid Lake Fishing Report- 2-15-15
Not much change since last report. We are experiencing very warm unseasonable temperatures here...
Truckee River Fishing Report- Pyramid Lake Fishing Report- 2-13-15
Record breaking daytime temps here in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. Honestly, it felt like...
Truckee River Fishing Report- Pyramid Lake Fishing Report- 2-10-15
Like most of Northern California we got hit pretty good with mostly rain, but some snow, mainly...
Truckee River Fishing Report- Pyramid Lake Fishing Report- 2-6-15
This is when things get interesting. Going into this month the fishing will get better on all...
Sage Fly Rods
I got my first "real fly rod" on a trip to the Upper Sac when I was 13. My Dad broke the tip on...
Good Deals- Truckee River Fishing Report- Pyramid Lake Fishing Report- 2-1-15
On the the Truckee River the same old same old. High pressure off the coast the last 5 weeks...
Truckee River Fishing Report 1-25-15
Just got done with switch/ swing week here at GGS on the Truckee River. Clinic yesterday and...
Truckee River Fishing Report 1-21-15
Way above average daytime highs here in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. Not to good for...
Truckee River Fishing Report 1-17-15
Milder weather, good fishing again in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. We had a little bit of...
Truckee River Fishing Report 1-14-15
A little colder this week with the east wind blowing, in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. It...
Truckee River Fishing Report 1-10-15
Finally, I feel as if the Truckee River is coming back into it's own again. She's starting to...
Truckee River Fishing Report 1-7-15
Not to much going on in the way of weather. If you like nice sunny days in the middle of winter...
Truckee River Fishing Report 1-3-15
We just thawed out here in the Hirsch, back into the 40's again today. Looks like we got past...
Truckee River Fishing Report- Pyramid Lake Fishing Report- 12-31-14
Deep cold has settled into the Truckee-Tahoe-Reno area. My body is shocked, I just returned...
Switch Rod- Swing Clinic- Truckee River 1-24-15
Slow and low that is the tempo. Got a two hander? Welp, winter is a great time to use it on...
Pyramid Lake Fly Fishing Report 12-19-14
The fly fishing has been a bit spotty out at Pyramid Lake lately, typical winter time type of...
Pyramid Lake Clinic- January 31st
Doug O and I will be holding a Pyramid Lake Clinic at Pyramid Lake in Nevada on January 31st....
Truckee River Fishing Report 12-12-14
The storm of the century my ass. Frustrated to say the least. This last storm never pushed over...
Pyramid Lake Fly Fishing Report 12-9-14
Been real tough for me to decide where to go fish lately, Pyramid Lake, or the Truckee River....
Truckee River Fishing Report 12-6-14
Another Truckee River fishing report in the same week, I can get used to this again. I've been...
Truckee River Fishing Report-Discounted Guide Trips-12-2-14
This has been a long time coming. Over two months since I've done a fishing report on the...
Pyramid Lake Fly Fishing Report 12-1-14
Thanksgiving week ended all right for precip up in our neck of the woods. I think they got...
Truckee River Fishing Report 11-27-14
Been a while since I actually did a fishing report for the Truckee River. Why? Because the...
Pyramid Lake Fishing Report 11-25-14
High pressure the last couple days has put a clamp on the bite out at Pyramid Lake. That should...
Pyramid Lake Fly Fishing Report 11-22-14
Fly fishing at Pyramid Lake continues to be solid, in fact if I had to choose, I would be here...
Pyramid Lake Nevada Fly Fishing Report 11-19-14
The bigs are in all over, on all the bay beaches at Pyramid Lake right now, and the fly fishing...