Welcome to Eastern Sierra Fish Reports

The Truckee River has seen stable flows but rising water temps this week. Anyone looking to fish the T should do so in the morning hours. How late in the day you can fish will depend on the section of

*STOCKING ALERT* July 15, 2026 Today, BFEF volunteers stocked several hundred pounds of BFEF Tagged Trophy Trout into Upper Twin Lake @ MonoVillage & Bridgeport Reservoir. These fintastic fish weighed an average 4.21 lbs. This was made possible by our generous supporters,

Michael Royere and his buddy Scott Spangler hit the jackpot today, catching (5) BFEF tagged trophy trout weighing between 3lbs 3oz- 5lbs 14oz while fishing on Bridgeport Reservoir. They got them verified at Ken's and collected both their bragging rights

Cool mornings, hot and windy afternoons. Blue bird sun all day, (except the last few days  of thunderstorms remnants from the monsoons in the 4 corners area).  Fishing is good if we get out in the mornings and nymph the pocket

*Big Virginia Lake* BFEF welcomes Eddie A. from Corona, Ca to the BFEF Tagged Trophy Trout Club. Today, he bagged this fintastic 4lb 3oz BFEF TTT while fishing at Big Virginia Lake. He got it verified at Ken's and collected both

The Virginias are still full of action with bait and early/late in the day anglers are getting some fish with mini jigs, Thomas Bouyants and Kastmasters. Fly anglers are doing well with small leech patterns and soft hackles.

We're getting some mixed reports from the West with some anglers doing well and others not so much. Some of the anglers who have been successful have been using salmon eggs and night crawlers for bait, or panther martins and

The Twins are still producing some good fish both from boats and the shore. Boat anglers are getting into some fish trolling night crawlers and Rapalas as well as posting up and bait fishing. Shore anglers are mostly bait fishing

Aaron Page from Reno and Blaine Tibbals from Yerrington Caught these on Mouse tails off one of our pontoons

10+ pound Lake Trout first thing this morning, released....then tried for another double digit for another hour and a half with no more love. We switched techniques and went after dinner fish and scored 5 more bites, landing 3 (2

Congratulations to Wayne P., for winning our 4th of July fishing derby with a 7lb 8oz rainbow.

The fishing has picked up a little. Most anglers have picked up a few nice rainbows. I even received a picture of an angler who caught a huge mountain whitefish this week. Best picture I have seen is 9-year-old Gio Menor from