July 6th. Man do we have some water! All of the reservoirs that flow into the Truckee are either full or within inches of being full. This is the first time that has happened since the mid 1990's. The good news is we are charged and should get a few years of great water conditions out of this. The short term bad news is we are chomping at the bit to get out and play on the river which in most areas is flowing 4-5 times the normal flows. Hang in there. The rewards are coming soon.

Tahoe is within about 6-8 inches of the top of the dam and going up daily. They are not letting much water out of the lake and the flows from Tahoe City down to about the confluence of Donner Creek near Truckee are not too bad and totally fishable. Once you get below Donner creek it starts to pick up speed and by the time you get to Boca Bridge it is over 2000 CFS all the way through Reno and beyond.

The river is starting to clear a bit even down in Nevada. The upper stretch between Tahoe City and Truckee has always been a pretty good area for attractor dries and dry dropper combo's. The further downstream you get the more important it is to fish deeper and get your flies down in the faster water so a normal Truckee indicator rig should work fine.

Here are the current flows as of July 6th. (Ideal fishing flows in parenthesis):
Town of Truckee 471 CFS (100-400)
Boca Bridge 2020 CFS (anything below 650)
Farad 2450 CFS (400-600)
Mogul 2450 CFS (300-500)
Reno 2350 CFS (350-500).