The Little Truckee remains high this week, but has dropped a bit, sitting at +/- 350 as of today. This is high, but still normal for this time of year. At these flows you will need to remain somewhat selective as to what runs you should be fishing, but there will be quite a bit more available than last week when it was 650 CFS. With the surge in water over the last few weeks, we have seen good populations of fish moving up from the lake and into the river, which has improved fishing. As we see the flows continue to drop, we should see the first sign of spawning fish out here. Because this is a tailwater, this typically happens later in the year than the main river and will likely ramp up over the next few weeks. It will be important to keep an eye out for redds and avoid fishing to or near spawning fish. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about this! As for flies out here right now, the usual suspects will once again fish will and there should be a big emphasis on worms, baetis and midges right now. Other outliers would be skwalas, march browns and caddis, which we see less of, but are still a good option to mix it up with. We are seeing the fish resume their typical top water feeding habits with good dry fly fishing daily now, mostly on baetis. There are two types of BWO’s around right now, the typical size 20-22’s as well as a larger, darker one, around a size 16. In general for the LT, you will likely find better luck on the smaller imitations, and typically fishing the emerger stage. This should also be coupled with light tippet, down to 7x for best results.

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