You want the good news or the bad news? The good news is that we’ve had a week of solid cool temps, some rain, it made for some muddy flows, brought the river up, and bought us some time so to speak.

Little high and off color, the Truckee River that is. Can’t believe I’d be saying that.

Pretty good steady fishing still here on the Truckee River in the greater Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. Been doing a lot tight line nymphing in the fast stuff. Crays, stones, and caddis. Get out early before the water gets warm- the fishing is pretty good. Luckily, we’ve been getting big thunder heads every afternoon with rain, hell, the river was darn near blown out this morning. Things could get dicey by the end of this month. They will drop flows out of Lake Tahoe. No one seems to know exactly what the flows will be, but it is going to be paramount that when you fish, you fish early, and don’t fish after a certain time of the day. Right now, we’re ok. We do have water storage in Donner Lake, and Independence Lake. Both lakes are full, and it will be used, I’m told, to help supplement the water for the river. The river will be fine, and so will the fish and the fishing. We just have to educate, or I have to educate the importance of not fishing when water temps get warm. August could be record hot, or we could get a monsoonal flow with afternoon thunderstorms every day. We’ll just have to keep our fingers crossed.

I’ve used a lot of crappy digital point and shoot cameras over the years, nothing over a few hundred bucks, and they’re fine for goverment work, but you can only do so much with them.

Good-good-good fishing here on the Truckee River in the greater, Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area.

Warm, warm, and very warm here on the Truckee River. Been very hot here this July.

Cloudy and muggy the last few days here on the Truckee River in the, Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. Not wanting to rain, but cloudy, good monochrome type of sky for fishing.

Very warm weather and good fishing here on the Truckee River in the greater Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area.

Looks like the heat is around to stay in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. It can put the clamp down on the afternoon fishing on the Truckee RIver this time of year.

Still good consistent fishing here on the Truckee River. A little break the last few days from the normal summer patterns here in the Tahoe-Reno area with some cloud cover and cool day time highs.

Good consistent fishing here on the Truckee River in the Lake Tahoe-Reno-Truckee area. Good fishing in the am, slow in the afternoons, and good again in the evening.

Pretty good consistent fishing here on the Truckee River in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. Caddis, and more caddis seem to be getting them all up and down the river.

Fishing is good around the Lake Tahoe basin, the dry fly fishing I should say. I’m not gonna name names, but if you know where to look and go at the right time of day with the right emergers and duns (preferably mine) well..

Caddis and lots of caddis on the Truckee River. Pop’n pretty hard all day and most definitely in the evenings.

Pretty good reliable fishing here on the Truckee River in the greater Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. Caddis and more caddis+ fast oxygenated water will get you some fish.

Really good summertime fishing here on the Truckee River in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. The river is in great shape from up along 89 in California, to the Nature Conservancy in Nevada.

Summer fun is here on the Truckee River in the greater Lake Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. Been near 80 in Truckee all week. Perfect weather.

Doug O and I are at it again. Tight line nymph clinic on the Truckee River, Saturday June 14th. If you want to learn some short line nymphing techniques, that is nymping without indicators, this is the class.

Good predictable fishing happening right now on the Truckee River. The river is fishing like late June-early July status. Caddis are trying to pop, thinking they will come off big this next week.