The Truckee River, Martis, Donner Lake, Boca, Prosser and Stampede Reservoirs offer plenty of fishing variety meaning that experts and beginners alike will find something to suit them. Truckee happens to be a convenient supply center offering decent restaurants, good lodging and unique shopping. There is also excellent camping nearby, which only adds to the attractive nature of this place.
Local waters will get a lot of attention especially during the winter and the summer when this place becomes a popular and crowded vacation spot. The local waters become so popular that there are five fish limits all through the year. Fishing is definitely year round, and Tahoe is always available because there is no freezing. Boca, Prosser and Stampede are going to offer dandy fishing in the ice all throughout the winter. Locals do a lot of their fishing in the ice in the face of the dams. The rock facing on these dams is capable of hiding minnows and plenty of other food. Make sure to bring some large rock with you that you can grow into the ice in order to determine its level of safety. Good offerings for this place are crappie jigs, worms, jigging spoons and also power bait. The fishing at Donner lake will peak in March, April and May if the lake is not frozen at this time.
Prosser and Boca
Truckee residents fish Prosser looking for pan sized rainbow trout to fill their stomachs all year long. Approximately 5 miles from the town, all winter it will offer ice fishing consistently with 10 inch to 14 inch rainbows. There is good summer shore fishing on the main inlet at Prosser. During July there are consistent hatches in the evening hours if the lake is full around the Aldar Creek mouth where the meadow is flooded, but mainly after the sun has already left the water. Big brown trout also are not unknown in Prosser, especially along the outlet to the creek during the spring months.
The speed limit in the lake is only 10 miles per hour and this limits boats and skiers away, keeping the smaller boat fishermen happy. If you are interested in fly fishing in tiny streams, then follow Prosser Creek in the spring until you arrive at Truckee. Prosser Campground also offers some great campsites. The sites and the hook ups are not far from a launching ramp that is rough but usable.
Boca fly and lure action from the shore is going to be best for waders that are on the point opposite of the Boca Rest as well as the Little Truckee River inlet. Troll the west side points as well as the large coves near the north end, where you will find excellent bait fishing especially early on in the season. Locals tend to do well in the late winter as well as the early spring, especially when it comes to fly fishing in the inlet cove using streamer patterns as well as during the fly hatch at Little Black Stone when using black nymphs as well as size 12 and 14 Stimulators.
Stampede
Stampede is a favorite reservoir in the Truckee area and offers some really nice shaded camp sites. Early during the spring, large trout end up clobbering 5-inch plugs and trolling flies that are worked along the shore. The most popular types of colors tend to fall into the gold, yellow and orange spectrum. The brown trout and rainbow trout offering here is generally around the 10 inch to 14 inch range.
Deep trolling worms and flashers using downriggers, wire line and lead core will last all summer long off of the points between the dam and the launch ramp. Bait fishermen are also going to do well here, especially with air injected worms. If the water in the reservoir drops as much as it typically does, then peeled crayfish tails are another favorite.
The best fishing in the early season is going to be in the northeast arm just past the dam turnoff. Just about 100 yards south of the junction between two small streams you will find a small outcrop of rocks. There is often a lot of floating wood here, so using worms beneath bobbers is generally a good way to go to keep you from snagging without preventing you from catching.
Two spots that are consistently great for trollers as well as shore anglers are the Saegehen Creek and the little Truckee River which are the two primary tributaries in this area. They can be accessed easily and concentrate plenty of large browns pre spawn, following the Kokanee who are spawning in the area so that they can feast on the eggs. You should be looking for this in the latter half of October or when the first snows are flying.
Some of the best Kokanee fishing in the Sierra area is found in the Stampede Reservoir area. The action early in the season is capable of being found by trolling the arms of the aforementioned tributaries. In this area during the summer months, the spot north of the island is going to hold a lot of fish as well. Trollers tend to get the best results from down riggers or lead core, getting spoons and dodgers around 30 to 45 feet below. The popular colors for spoons here tend to be purple and blue.
During the later half of the summer, large mature fish will school up around the dam, and jigging using heavy casting spoons and Buzz Bombs can work wonders at producing quick limits in this area if you can easily locate and drift right over these schools. You should be looking for tight groupings of different guide boats for a good indicator, especially in September around the dam.
Summer shore casting will peak early as well as late during the day. If you take a careful dawn approach to the bank areas you will be able to spot large cruising browns. Copper spoons work especially well for this purpose. Shore casters that are patient as well as trollers can fish using large minnow plugs to pick up some shore-cruising browns that are very large. This is especially great after plants from the Department of Fish and Game. If you countdown cast using copper spoons or silver spoons you will have more consistent results when it comes to the smaller trout.
Donner
As a result of being surrounded by cabins and roads, many fishermen skip Donner all together which is too bad because it is a winner in the winter when it comes to huge brown trout and Mackinaw. During the spring and the fall months it is great for Kokanee, browns and rainbows as well. Fishing is also relatively fair in the summertime, but only at dawn and dusk because otherwise there are too many skiers on the water.
Shore fishermen use salmon eggs and cheese to fish using the public ramp new the Donner Village Resort where there are stocked fish that are biting all throughout the summer and only a few feet away from parking. It is much more productive and more fun to toss black spoons and copper spoons off the bank, letting them sink for counts of 10 or 15 seconds before allowing them to be slowly retrieved.
There is plenty of public access and decent camping with plenty of room for fishing from the docks. The docks near the springs, those with overhanging bushes and those near small inlet streams are going to produce all throughout the summer but boats tend to be best when fishing at Donner. In the winter time, locals troll using large minnow plugs around 10 feet to 30 feet below water near the lake's north side, and they turn up plenty of browns and Mackinaw as a result. They find that along the west end, air injected worms tend to work best.
During the spring and the fall months, you should be trolling or casting plugs or spoons in search of rainbows and browns. You will also find still fish when you use air injected night crawlers or when you use Shasta sandwiches in order to catch trout in China Cove, which is dotted with boulders.
Fly fishermen find plenty of action in the shady areas of piers, especially near brush and along banks an even off smaller tributary streams as well. Size 16 Black Ants and size 14 Adams work well dry and size 12 Wooly Buggers or size 12 Hare's Ear Nymphs when fished wet also tend to work well during the summer months. Use bubbles with spin casters if you want to obtain solid results while fly fishing. A good plan for the summer will combine deep trolling for Mackinaw and Kokanee with shallow trolling for browns with fly fishing during the evening hours.
Martis Creek
This is a Wild Trout Lake that is tidy and quite large at 700 acres, and it can be found near the Truckee Airport. It will be your best chance for catching rainbows that are two feet in length and gorgeous browns, at least as far as California fishing is concerned. This is a catch and release lake using single barbless hooks and artificial lures during the stream season, so make sure that you check with the regulations from the Department of Fish and Game.
The best shore fishing in the early season is going to be off of what is known as the long spit, which is midway down through the reservoir near the Sierra View Campgrounds. You can take advantage of 270 degrees of casting from the tip of the point in order to catch plenty of cruising trout. During the summer, you should be fishing in the cool water of the inlet to the creek. The inlet is also going to produce when the lake seems to be slow otherwise. There are cool water springs that are located on the lake's eastern side where dry stream beds are.
You should be fishing with a spinner or a spoon, nipping off two hooks on your trebles and pinching down your barbs in order to meet the regulations for the area. Cast in a fan so that you can cover the entire bank using a countdown system. At times, large lures and large flies will be needed here. The smaller, more active trout tend to beat the big fish to the smaller spinners and spoons, but smaller lures will definitely catch you more fish in the long run.
Fly fishermen tend to do particularly well when keying to the blood midge. This is an abundant bug that hatches all through the season on a fairly regular basis. It tends to be best imitated using a size 12 or size 16 Blood Midge Pupa, and there are two different patterns that you can choose from to this effect, a buzzer style and a palomino style. The third pattern style to choose from is the Emerger style which hands with a trailing shuck. Fish this pupa down below the surface, aiming for the weed bed edges for the best results.
Release your trout with a minimum amount of handling. If they are not as frisky following the fight, pump them gently back and forth in the water to move the water through their gills to get them going. Take care not to use ultra light tackle because trout stress easily when it comes to long fights.
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