Fishing has been pretty good over the 4th of July holiday. I was all over the place from Lake Davis to the Truckee with stops at Milton and the North Yuba as well. The rivers are starting to look like mid August with fairly low flows and higher water temps. Lake Davis was 70 degrees at 10 am on July 3rd and in my opinion too warm to safely catch and release trout at this time. I am pulling off Davis until the fall.
The Truckee continues to fish well. Ive been concentrating on the pocket water with dry dropper rigs and getting plenty of action on small wild fish. Most of the action has been on the dropper(caddis, mayfly and little yellow stones) but have moved some fish to the dry. Flows are decent around town (221cfs) and water temps are in the low to mid 60's in the am to upper 60's in the afternoon. Below Boca flows are a bit bigger (474cfs) but water temps are a bit better due to influx of water from the LT. If you are looking for bigger fish nymphing is the way to go. Tight lining with caddis, stones and crays are getting hook ups. Concentrate on the faster deeper runs and pocket water and cover the water thoroughly. Due to warming waters please land your fish quickly and and try to minimize the amount of time the fish is out of the water.
It is time to start targeting warm water species such as bass and carp.
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