EAST WALKER RIVER        

The East is running at about 207 cfs right now and is fishing very well. It seems like the streamer action has dropped a bit but the nymphing and dry fly fishing have been very good. We’re getting lots of reports from lots of anglers fishing dries and nymphs and getting into lots of really good fish some going upwards of 22 and 24 inches. With these lower flows it’s a really good time to get on the river, especially since the dry fly fishing is so good, which doesn’t happen all that often. Some patterns to try include: chubby Chernobyl, blue dun, blue wing olive, E/C caddis, elk hair caddis, stimulator, darth baetis, zebra midge, perdigon, picky eater perdigon, rainbow warrior, silver streak, rubber legs.  

Also, some food for thought, in the Fish and Wildlife Departments infinite wisdom they have decided to not make barbless hooks mandatory on the East Walker, this is absolutely going to be detrimental to the life if this amazing river in the future, if you care at all about the East Walker and its sustainability, please pinch your barbs, if everyone adheres to this practice it will help the East Walker River to keep on being a world class fishery. Thanks for your consideration.                      

SCEIRINE RANCH          

The Ranch has been fishing excellent lately, lots of nice fish up to the 22” range have been being caught down there. As with the California side of the river the dries and nymphs are the best way to go on the ranch. If you want to get on the calendar for some time down there just give us a call.        

HUNEWILL POND   

The pond is still fishing great with almost every report coming in being a good one! The fish are very healthy and feisty and are still eating small leech patterns, soft hackles as well as some small midge and callibaetis patterns dropped off of indicators. The weeds aren’t much of a problem lately and the weed mowing program is going to start in a week or two to keep them a bit controlled. Give us a call if you’d like to book some time out there.                   

BRIDGEPORT RESERVOIR          

Bridgeport is still kicking out lots of fish, we’ve had some good reports from the trollers, as well as bait anglers fishing from boats over near Rainbow Point as well as a few up in Buckeye Bay. The shore fishing had a couple slower days but the last few days it seems to have picked up again. Most of the shore anglers are fishing down near the “Bathtub” area on down to the dam. Power bait, mice tails, inflated crawlers and pinched crawlers are all doing well. The trollers have been using crawlers, speedy shiners, Rapalas and Thomas Bouyants.                         

KIRMAN LAKE                      

WE didn’t hear anything from Kirman this past week but I would guess it is still fishing pretty well like it was last week. If you’re going to make the trek up there I’d be packing some leech patterns, soft hackles, scud and maybe some small flashy nymphs as well.              

TWIN LAKES                     

The Twins are still kicking out some very nice fish with even a 10+ pound brown being reported as caught and released a couple days ago on the Lower Lake. Lots of good action trolling as well as bait fishing up there. For trolling you can try Kastmasters, Rapalas, K/C lures, G-Ratt baits and Thomas Bouyants and for bait try pinched crawlers, inflated crawlers, power bait and mice tails.                                                          

WEST WALKER RIVER                  

It sounds like the West is pretty high and muddy with the run-off being more or less in full swing. This will likely last a few weeks, when it starts to slow down the fishing up there should be very good. 

VIRGINIA LAKES           

It sounds like Little V is ice free now and Big V and Trumbull will likely be the same within the next couple days. The fishing has been good with anglers reporting good catches on power bait, mice tails and pinched crawlers as well as Thomas Bouyants and Kastmasters. We haven’t heard of anyone fly fishing it just yet but usually this time of the year you can’t go wrong with leeches and soft hackles!                                  

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