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Fish Nevada
Fishing Report
Available fishing reports are generally updated
weekly for southern Nevada. Reports for northwest and northeast
Nevada will be posted as made available.
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stream and river flows.
Southern Nevada
QUAGGA REMINDER: With the ice melting on northern
waters, anglers are preparing their boats for the trip north and
NDOW is asking boaters to take the necessary precautions to prevent
the spread of quagga mussels from the Colorado River system to other
waters. Thoroughly clean, drain and dry your boat, trailer and towing
vessel before traveling to another water.
EAGLE VALLEY RESERVOIR
Small planters are making up the bulk of the catch though there
are bigger rainbow and tiger trout in this Lincoln County water.
The fish have been a little finicky of late, but PowerBait and
silver Kastmasters produced bites over the weekend.
ECHO CANYON RESERVOIR
Crappie are spawning and taking bait along the south side of
the reservoir. Trout fishing is fair.
LAKE MEAD
Fishing pressure has been heavy in the Vegas Bay arm of the
Lake, but anglers are still catching stripers and catfish. Shad
are moving in and out of the shallows where they can be netted
and used for bait. As a reminder -- the legal radius for a shad
net is only three feet. Stripers are taking cut bait and catfish
are hitting night crawlers or stink bait. Fishing along the beaches
is hit-and-miss. Anglers in the Overton arm are finding good action
for striped bass.
LAKE MOHAVE
Despite throwing just about everything a tackle box can hold,
anglers fishing Willow Beach and downstream as far as mile marker
42 found slow action for both striped and largemouth bass over
the weekend. Shore anglers looking for stocked rainbow trout found
success when fishing with PowerBait below south of the picnic
tables.
Anglers fishing out of Cottonwood Cove are finding fair to good
action from shore as well as from boats. Trolling with anchovies
in 20 to 80 feet of water is yielding the most success, though
some anglers are catching fish while casting top-water lures and
jerkbaits. Stillfishing with prepared baits has been only moderately
successful. Big fish honors were taken by a 5.74-pound largemouth
bass during a recent tournament.
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| Here are some of the successful
anglers from Lake Mojave. From left to right: Bruce Silat
with a 42-inch, 41.46 pound striper, Chuck McMurry holds up
a 36 inch and a 34.5-inch striper, and 7-year-old Lily Easter
holding up a 22.5 pound striper. |
LAUGHLIN
Small stripers and catfish are taking bait fished along Casino
Row. Trout fishermen are still catching a few rainbow trout while
working the Colorado River from the bridge south.
WAYNE E. KIRCH WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
AREA
Anglers have found typical spring fishing conditions on each
of the three main reservoirs – Haymeadow, Cold Springs and
Adams McGill. Fishing has been good for 14- to 16-inch rainbow
trout, but windy conditions have made things tough at times. Popular
fly patterns include an olive Woolly Bugger or a Prince Nymph.
Bait anglers generally do well with PowerBait or worms.
URBAN PONDS
NDOW plans on stocking catfish in the ponds at Floyd Lamb Park,
Lorenzi Park, Sunset Park, Veterans Memorial Park, and Hafen Park
(Mesquite) later this month. Following the first plant in April
anglers reported good action for feisty whisker fish. Stink baits
and night crawlers can be productive. Though the action has slowed
considerably, trout are still taking PowerEggs and various fly
patterns. Be patient and fish early mornings and late afternoons.
Northeastern Nevada
The weather has been the big inhibitor in fishing lately, with
thunderstorms and high winds. Please keep an eye on the weather
conditions, and when they deteriorate, get off the water. There
will be plenty of other days to go fishing.
ANGEL LAKE
There are several large drifts on the road up to the lake, so
it may be a while before this road is open.
CAVE LAKE
Fishing here is fair to good depending upon the day and the
weather. Small spinners, worms and PowerBait are all working.
Average fish size is 10-12 inches. Approximately 5,500 trout were
stocked on April 22.
COMINS LAKE
Trout fishing has been poor here due to the illegal introduction
of pike which have decimated the trout and bass fishing here.
Due to this, NDOW is currently not stocking Comins with trout.
ILLIPAH
Fishing has been good and was stocked on April 22 with approximately
5,600 fish.
JAKE'S / BOISE RESERVOIR
Approximately 2,000 trout were stocked on Wednesday, May 7. Carry-over
fish are in the 10 to 12 inch size with the occasional 14 fish
being caught. The water temps are still a bit cool for bass fishing.
JIGGS / ZUNINO RESERVOIR
Jiggs was stocked with 2,000 fish on Wednesday, May 7. Anglers
are being asked to keep the fish they catch up to the legal limit,
as this water has been getting low in the late summer and most
of the trout may not survive.
MOUNTAIN STREAMS & LAKES
Streams are full and muddy. Fishing will be a bit difficult in
most of our area streams until the snow melt slows down later
in the spring. The exceptions will be the beaver ponds that may
clear up as the water slows down.
RUBY LAKE NWR
No change here. Fishing is slow to fair, with the main boat landing
being sIow and the ditch being fair. I would recommend a bear
hair streamer, wooly buggers or leach patterns in the ditch right
now. They can be fished on a floating line and let the weight
of the fly take it down. These flies tied with bead heads are
also effective here this time of year. Bead head nymphs may also
work. The larger patterns recommended in the South Fork report
above, should be effective here as well.
SOUTH FORK RESERVOIR
Not much change here, though a few more bass and wipers are being
picked up. Most of the trout appear to be hanging a bit deeper
and trollers are having the best luck fishing between 15 and 20
feet down using flashers, wedding rings and spinners. The wipers
 appear
to be moving into the coves at times and hitting the chub fry
so watch for boils around the lake. Also, anglers have had success
with the wipers at the south end of the lake in the willows. Most
fly rodders are producing fish with wooly bugger, leach and similarly
large patterns in browns, bloods, olives and blacks. Purple has
also been effective. It appears that the larger patterns, sized
4 through 8 are working the best and that having flash in the
tail and body is essential. The water temperature is in the 50’s
and a few bass are being picked up in the afternoons. As the water
temps get closer to 60, the bass will become more active. Finally,
no black bass may be taken here until July 1st. One wiper 15 inches
or longer may be kept.
WILDHORSE RESERVOIR
The lake level continues to rise which is good, but fishing has
been just fair. There are perch hanging in the canyon on structure,
but with the spawn about to start, fishing for perch probably
will be slow until around Memorial Day. Trout appear to be hanging
on the bottom. The Hendricks arm is a turbid, but considering
the runoff, the rest of the lake isn’t that bad. The water
is in the 40’s in the canyon but into the low 50’s
in the coves and shallower parts of the lake. Not many anglers
on the water, so it is hard to get a true representation of how
the fishing is. But anglers should use larger presentations that
have some flash. As the water temps warm up a bit, then the trout
should start cruising the shoreline and will be more accessible.
Right now though, boaters will probably have the best luck. On
Monday, May 12, NDOW will be stocking catchable sized trout into
the lake.
WILSON RESERVOIR
The water is spilling over the spillway. Fishing below the spillway
should be good very soon. Damsel nymph patterns fished along the
willow edges just south of the boat ramp should be very effective
on warm sunny afternoons. Otherwise, bead head PT’s as well
as wooly buggers and leaches are all worth a try if the damsels
aren’t working. Fishing here should be on a par with South
Fork as trollers will generally do better than shore anglers using
the same methods as at South Fork.
Northwestern Nevada
BILK CREEK RESERVOIR
Road in good shape and ice is off.
BIG SPRINGS
RESERVOIR
Water is dropping again. Springs discontinued to flow.
BOULDER RESERVOIR
CARSON RIVER
CATNIP RESERVOIR TRIBUTARIES
AND OUTLET
CHIMNEY RESERVOIR
FORT CHURCHILL
COOLING PONDS
 HOBART
RESERVOIR
Season opened May 1, but road may be inaccessible. Fishing
hours are from one hour before sunrise to two hours after sunset.
Limit is 5 trout, only one of which is longer than 14 inches.
Only artificial lures with single barbless hooks may be used.
LAHONTAN RESERVOIR
LAKE TAHOE
LIBERTY POND
 MASON
VALLEY WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA
Opened February 9, any hour of the day for the following waters:
Bass, Crappie, North Bonds, Beaver Slough and that portion
of the Walker River within the Mason Valley WMA.
Hinkson Slough same season as above. Limit is two trout and
15 warm water game fish of which not more than two may be black
bass. Minimum size for trout is 16 inches. Minimum size for
black bass is 14 inches. Artificial lures only. Come March 1st,
it will be unlawfull to possess black bass between 11 and 14
inches in length.
The opener for Hinkson was very slow but has picked up in the
last few days with some reports of 20 inch fish being caught.
Try using a zug bug or a water boatman with intermediate line
for best results. Some bass action has arrived with the warmer
temperatures. For best results run roster tails along the vegetation.
MARLETTE LAKE
PINE FOREST
COMPLEX (Blue Lakes, Knott Creek, Onion)
RYE PATCH
SPOONER LAKE
Iced over.
SQUAW CREEK RESERVOIR
Randy Lusetti, Regional Game warden, reported anglers have
been averaging four fish an hour. Spinners have been producing
the best results. Anglers have reported catching a few bullheads
on worms. The bass action is still slow.
TOPAZ LAKE and CANAL
 Topaz
Landing, reports several quality fish where caught last weekend.
One Tiger trout weighing in at 2lb 4 oz was caught last week
on needle fish. Some additional catches report a couple of fish
at 1lb plus. Most boaters are concentrating their efforts on
the South East side of the Lake towards the mouth of the river.
Needle fish have been the most productive. No reports from bank
fisherman.
TRUCKEE RIVER
WALKER LAKE
Karie Wright, Walker Lake Fisheries Biologist, reports Spoons
and powerbait from shore have been catching a fish now and then.
Trolling with spoons has been the most productive, but still
slow. Access is the same. It is near impossible to launch at
Sportsman's boat dock/ramp. Launching at State Parks, with four
wheel drive has been the best option.
EAST WALKER
RIVER SPECIAL REGULATION WATERS
WEST WALKER RIVER
WALL CANYON RESERVOIR
WASHOE COUNTY URBAN PONDS
Marilyn's ond has been refilled and was recently
planted May 5 with 500 rainbow trout.
All urban Ponds have been planted except Virginia Lake. Virginia
Lake will not be planted this spring.
Check out the latest stocking
report.
- Sparks Marina
- Paradise Pond
 Virginia
Lake- Idlewild Ponds
- Rancho San Rafael Pond
- Wilson Commons
- Marilyn's Pond
WASHOE LAKE
Washoe Lake dried in 2004 and, although it is presently full
and has been restocked, the fish population, consisting mostly
of channel catfish and white bass, is small. Fishing is expected
to be poor.
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