BIG SPRINGS RESERVOIR - Big Springs Reservoir is filling, but is not yet high enough to support trout

CARSON RIVER - Carson River is good around the old broken Ruhenstroth Dam area for stocked rainbow trout.

CATNIP RESERVOIR TRIBUTARIES AND OUTLET - Opened on June 10. Fishing has been hot with cutthroat up to 24 inches in length captured. The average size was closer to 14 inches. Best fishing is along the west side in a float tube or canoe.

CHIMNEY RESERVOIR - Walleye and crappie fishing has been good, but will taper off with the warm weather.

FORT CHURCHILL COOLING PONDS - The fishing at the Cooling Ponds is cooling off as the weather warms.

HOBART RESERVOIR - Fishing is hot at Hobart. The road up Ash Canyon was improved in 2005. Bring your float tube and insect repellent and be ready to catch 50 fish per day.

MARLETTE LAKE - Marlette Lake opens for fishing for the first time in recent history on July 15. Only single barbless hooks may be used and the limit is zero, catch-and-release only. The hike in from Spooner Lake is 10 miles round trip (5-miles each way), so be prepared.

LAHONTAN RESERVOIR - Anglers at Lahontan Reservoir are enjoying the best catch rates on walleye and white bass that they have in many years, due to good reproduction and recruitment from 2005. Many of the fish being caught are not large, with a majority of the white bass averaging only about 5 inches, but a few are running up to 13 inches. Most of the walleye are only running 8 to 10 inches, but 8-pound fish have been caught. Anglers should concentrate their fishing activities along sandy beaches. Catch white bass with worms, spinners, jigs, flies and minnows. The best time to fish has been the first and last light of the day when fish move into shallow water. Boaters should troll along the shoreline until a school of fish is located.

LAKE TAHOE - Rainbow were stocked the end of May at Sand Harbor and Cave Rock and anglers are still picking up a few fish. Mackinaw fishing has been good for those with specialized equipment

LIBERTY POND -The fishing at Liberty Pond has slowed for rainbow trout, but the channel catfish angling is picking up

MASON VALLEY WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA - Channel catfish were recently stocked into North Pond. Trout fishing has slowed at Hinkson and North Pond, but largemouth bass fishing is picking up at both locations as well as at Bass Pond.

PINE FOREST COMPLEX (Blue Lakes, Knott Creek, Onion) - Tyler Turnipseed, Regional Game Warden, reports fishing has been sporadic at Knott Creek, with a reported 6½ pound rainbow captured as well as a 2½ pound tiger trout. Onion Reservoir has received its full allocation of 30,000 fish and is fishing well. The reservoir is still filling from last year’s low level. Blue Lakes has been fair. One 2-pound tiger trout was reported captured.

RYE PATCH -Tyler Turnipseed, Regional Game Warden, reports that fishing is still good at Rye Patch on the face of the dam but below the dam in the Humboldt River fishing has slowed down significantly due to the Roger dam being repaired. As soon as flows increase the fishing should pick up. Jim French, Western Region Fisheries Biologist, reports that crappie fishing has been good from Callahan Bridge to the Pitt Taylor Arm of the upper reservoir.

SPOONER LAKE - The regulations were changed for Spooner in 2006 from a zero fish limit to a 5 fish limit any legal method, which means that you can now fish with worms or Power Bait. Spooner has a lot of shoreline aquatic vegetation, so if you don’t want to fish by the dam, you should fish from a small boat, canoe or float tube. The fishing has been excellent.

SQUAW CREEK RESERVOIR - Fishing has slowed at Squaw Creek, but stocked rainbow are still showing up in the angler’s creel. Later this summer try for some of the spotted bass that have been introduced into the reservoir. No new reports.

TOPAZ LAKE and CANAL - Fishing has slowed with most of the fish being caught deep. No new reports.

TRUCKEE RIVER - Flows have subsided 444 cfs as of (8/7/06). Fishing has been great lower air temps and reduced flows have made fishing great on the Truckee. The Truckee River has received over seven thousand of stocked triploid rainbow trout and cutthroat trout in the month of July.

WALKER LAKE - Shore fishing is over for the year, with deep lining boat anglers picking up a few fish.

EAST WALKER RIVER SPECIAL REGULATION WATERS - Flow was still high 370 cfs (8/7/06), but should be coming down later this summer. Fishing should only be getting better as the flows drop. Still hard to wade and access with high flows.

WEST WALKER RIVER - The best waters on the West Walker are located next to the highway in Wilson Canyon and in Hoye Canyon just above Wellington. The Mason Valley Hatchery stocks both of these areas.
As there are some private lands interspersed along the river, anglers are advised to obey the No Trespassing signs.

WASHOE COUNTY URBAN PONDS

Sparks Marina
Paradise Pond
Virginia Lake
Idlewild Ponds
Rancho San Rafael Pond
Wilson Commons
Marilyn's Pond
Marilyn’s Pond is back on. This great little urban pond received over 2000 rainbow in July, Wilson Common and Davis Creek Park Pond received rainbow in mid July, Paradise Pond and Sparks Marina were stocked with 15-inch channel catfish the middle of June. Sparks Marina also received close to 4,000 rainbow trout for Free Fishing Day on June 10 and a majority of those fish are still in the pond. Several of the stocked fish weighed 5 pounds. Anglers getting their bait down deeper are experiencing the best catch rates.

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.