EAST WALKER RIVER        

The East is currently running at about 90 cfs. We had lots of mixed reports yesterday from the EW with some anglers doing very well and others not doing well at all. It sounds like the “Miracle Mile” section hasn’t fully recovered from the fish kill last year as most of the reports we received from that section were pretty poor. There were some fish caught in the upper section but there were definitely better reports coming in from the section below the bridge on down to Murphy’s Pond. Hopefully we’ll get some higher flows when the run-off starts and there will be more fish move up to the mile. Of the more successful reports we had most of them were drifting nymphs with just a few coming in on streamers. Some patterns that worked well yesterday: rainbow warrior, san juan worm, squirmy wormy, worm jig, perdigon, copper John, flashback emerger, drag queen, dead drift crayfish and sculpzilla.  

 

SCEIRINE RANCH           

The ranch fished very well again this week with most of the anglers reporting in doing very well. Lots of nice fish in the 14 to 18 inch range with a few taping over 20 for most anglers. The streamer action has been good early in the day with the nymph action picking up as the day goes on. Most of the same patterns that are working on the CA side are also working on the ranch. 

The trespass fees for the ranch have been updated as of April 24, 2025 to $100 for a half day per angler and $125 for a full day per angler. Anglers are still limited to 4 per day. Anglers who booked time on the ranch calendar prior to April 24, 2025 will still be charged at the old price of $75 per half day and $100 per full day.  100% of the trespass fees go directly to the ranch, cash is preferred. If you need to use a credit/debit card a 3% administration fee will be charged.             

 

HUNEWILL POND       

We didn’t get any reports back from the pond this week but I’m confident it’s still fishing very well. We have some bookings coming up and I’ll pass on any information we get from that.                      

            

BRIDGEPORT RESERVOIR                 

We had lots of very good reports come in yesterday from Bridgeport with some shore anglers reporting up to 10 fish and boat anglers reporting 25+ fish for the day. The biggest fish we weighed in yesterday was about 5 pounds but there were lots of fish between 3 and 4.5 coming in throughout the day. It sounded like trolling was the best method yesterday with lots of fish being caught on Rapalas, needlefish, Thomas Bouyants, speedy shiners and Kastmasters. We had a couple good reports from shore anglers throwing Rapalas but the bait fishing from shore seemed slower. The bait anglers who did have some success were mostly using pinched crawlers, mice tails and night crawlers. We didn’t hear much from bait anglers who were fishing out of boats so we’ll keep you posted on that when we get some info.                                  

 

KIRMAN LAKE                         

We haven’t heard anything back from Kirman so far for the first day of the season but we’ll let you know when we hear anything.                

 

TWIN LAKES                          

We didn’t hear about any double digit browns or rainbows from the Twins yesterday bit we did get lots of very good reports for fish in the 2 to 6 pound range. We heard about a few 6 pounders being caught but they were not brought in to the shop for weighing. Shore anglers seemed to do well mostly with bait and a few casting lures, boat anglers did pretty well trolling Rapalas, Kastmasters, needlefish and Thomas Bouyants. The weather is still overcast with a chance of snow today to hopefully some of those huge browns will come out to play!                                                                 

 

WEST WALKER RIVER               

Unfortunately we haven’t received any reports from the West yet but as soon as we do we will certainly pass the information on.     

 

VIRGINIA LAKES                     

The ice fishing at the Virginias was pretty good in the morning but it sounded like most anglers got out of there fairly early due to the weather and road conditions , it was snowing pretty good and it sounds like it dropped 5 or 6 new inches on the road. This storm is supposed to break later today and when it does I’d expect the road to thaw out pretty fast so access should be good very soon. We’ll try to keep up on the ice conditions up there and let you know when it’s time to wait for full ice out.                                        

 

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