This is it; this is the time of year we’ve all been waiting for. The flows are perfect and so are the water temps. The bugs are abundant and the fish are on the chew. The weather this week is sunny and warm (though maybe a bit too warm for us mountain folk), and this makes for some of the most excellent wet wading of the season. We highly recommend that anyone reading this makes fishing their priority over the next few weeks, you won’t be disappointed!
June 12th Fly Fishing Report for the Truckee River, Little Truckee River
Summer Half-Day Guided Floats
Trade the long wade for a summer float on the Truckee. This is one of the best windows of the year, with PMDs and caddis bringing consistent dry fly action and steady flows setting up the kind of deep-water streamer bites this river is known for. Summer brings some of the most explosive fishing of the year, and our guides know exactly where the fish are holding as the season warms up. Book a half-day float now to beat the heat and make the most of it.
Truckee River Fishing Report
The health of the wild trout in the Truckee River is about as good as we’ve ever seen thanks mostly to a series of good water years. This doesn’t mean that fishing on the Truckee will be easy, because it never is. It does mean that the quality and numbers are there and when we combine that with the excellent conditions on the river right now, this is shaping up to be a summer for the books. With air temps forecasted into the mid 80’s here in Truckee and mid 90’s in Reno, expect the water temps to rise rapidly. This will cause the better window of fishing to quickly shift to the morning hours. Remember, we open at 7:00 now, come visit us before you get on the water, get a few bugs and get the latest on conditions! Odds are we are still a couple weeks away from them reaching 68 degrees here in Truckee, at which point we would encourage anglers to focus solely on the morning hours, but as of now fishing is still an option all day. As we head into summertime conditions, we are focusing on riffles and pocket water. You may be surprised what kind of water you’ll find fish out of! We are seeing a large variety of aquatic insects on the river right now, with the main ones being PMDs, caddis, yellow sallies, green drakes, and golden stones. We are also finding success on crawdads fished on the euro rods, and these are especially effective for those of you that like to cover water quickly and move multiple miles in a day. With the amount of caddis we’ve been seeing here on the California side, we are doing better than normal using caddis pupa or larva imitations such as a Fox’s Poopah, Caddie Shack or Walt’s Worm in olive. With stoneflies and crawdads in the system, those fishing the indicator will find good luck on the lighter colored Pat’s Rubberlegs or a Dead Drift Cray, and anyone on the euro stick should be fishing a T.J. Hooker or a Mudbug as their anchor right now. With so many hatches happening right now, your smaller fly can really be a large number of things right now, just make sure you’re fishing down on the bottom and getting good drifts!
Recommended Flies for the Truckee River
Little Truckee Fishing Report
The Little Truckee has been fishing very well this week. Flows are still a bit high for some, but we would say that they are close to perfect. High enough to spread the fish out, and enough flow to add a fun challenge when presenting to them. Good for both dry fly fishing and nymphing with either indicators or the euro rod. The main bugs have been PMDs, baetis, midges, caddis and green drakes. The drakes have become particularly active this week, and we’ve been getting some good reports of dry fly fishing with them. The opportunity to catch an otherwise PHD level tailwater fish on a size 12 fly is something that you shouldn’t miss! The PMD hatch remains mid-day, the caddis in the evenings, midges in the mornings, and the drakes.. kinda whenever they want! Well, maybe they trend towards the afternoons a bit, but it’s more luck of the draw than anything. As is typical for the dry fly fishing out here, the use of light tippet, long leaders and fishing the emerger over the adults will be your best way to dupe these wily trout.
Recommended Flies for the Little Truckee River
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