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Cutthroat Trout Fishing Derby - Saturday, December 6, 2025

by PYRAMID LAKE
                Cutthroat Trout Fishing Derby - Saturday, December 6, 2025.     For more details, please contact the Pyramid Lake Fisheries at (775) 476-0500.
(More...) (Wednesday, November 5, 2025)

Good Fall fishing on the Truckee River

by MATT KOLES / Gilligan's Fly Service
Flows have remained good, at least below Boca, and the weather has been mild. Look for the weather to change this week and look more like Winter at times, but nothing to extreme yet.  Flows are about 460 here in Hirschdale,
(More...) (Sunday, November 2, 2025)

4.68 lb. Rainbow

by TWIN LAKES GENERAL STORE, MAMMOTH CA
Freddie Dimas with an 4lbs 11oz rainbow!
(More...) (Friday, October 31, 2025)

The stable flows and slow dropping water temps have made the fish especially active

by TROUT CREEK FLIES STAFF / Trout Creek Flies
The stable flows and slow dropping water temps have made the fish especially active as of late. As morning air temps drop into the upper 30’s, don’t be in a rush to get on the water right now. It seems
(More...) (Friday, October 31, 2025)

The lake has begun to turn over this week

by TROUT CREEK OUTFITTERS / Trout Creek Outfitters
The lake has begun to turn over this week, and a lake this size doesn’t necessarily flip all at once, but more in various areas over a week or two. This biannual turnover happens when the top part of the
(More...) (Friday, October 31, 2025)

Doug Busey: Eastern Sierra Fishing Report

by DOUG BUSEY / Carson Now
Hello fellow anglers,  We are in that crazy time of year when one day it’s summer, the next it’s winter. I wake up to 25-degree temps, and by the afternoon I’m peeling clothes off. For the last couple of weeks, Renee
(More...) (Thursday, October 30, 2025)

Wonderful hook jaw 3lb BFEF TTT while fishing at Bridgeport Reservoir

by KEN HOFFMAN - BFEF / Bridgeport Fish Enhancement Foundation
BFEF welcomes back Peggy Bristol from TRE to the BFEF Tagged Trophy Trout Club. Today, she caught a wonderful hook jaw 3lb BFEF TTT while fishing at Bridgeport Reservoir. She got it verified at Ken's and collected both her bragging rights
(More...) (Wednesday, October 29, 2025)

The Virginia's are still kicking out plenty of good fish

by KENS SPORTING GOODS STAFF / Kens Sporting Goods
The Virginia's are still kicking out plenty of good fish for fly anglers as well as spin anglers, fly anglers are using small leeches, soft hackles and wooly buggers and spin anglers are using power bait, mice tails, night crawlers,
(More...) (Sunday, October 26, 2025)

We didn't hear much news from the West this week

by KENS SPORTING GOODS STAFF / Kens Sporting Goods
We didn't hear much news from the West this week but you should still be able to get into some fish with spinners like Mepps and Panther Martins and bait like salmon eggs and night crawlers. Fly anglers can try
(More...) (Sunday, October 26, 2025)

The Twins have also been a little hit and miss lately

by KENS SPORTING GOODS STAFF / Kens Sporting Goods
The Twins have also been a little hit and miss lately with some poor reports coming in as well as some decent reports. We heard about a 4.5lb brown caught and released trolling on the Lower Lake this week as
(More...) (Sunday, October 26, 2025)

Recreational Dungeness Crab Fishing Opens Nov. 1 with Limitations, Commercial Season Delayed

by CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE
The recreational Dungeness crab season will open beginning Nov. 1, 2025, except in northern California where it has been delayed due to a public health hazard. State health agencies determined that Dungeness crab in northern California have unhealthy levels of domoic
(More...) (Friday, October 24, 2025)

First Fish Caught on Lee Vinning Creek

by BEAVER'S SPORTING GOODS STAFF
                Drake's first fish. Caught in Lee Vining Creek on worms.   Way to go!!!!
(More...) (Friday, October 24, 2025)

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