The Truckee River has seen stable flows but rising water temps this week. Anyone looking to fish the T should do so in the morning hours. How late in the day you can fish will depend on the section of river, with the Glenshire area warming quicker than down in the canyon, due to the Little Truckee confluence providing a bit of cold water relief. Please bring thermometers with you and call it day when temps hit 68 degrees. It’s well known that the fish really shut off feeding much beyond these temps anyways. Trout are holding in pocket water right now, this is when euro nymphing or dry dropper fishing will be at their best. When the fish are holding in the quick and often shallow sections of river, depth control is everything, you don’t want to be dragging the bottom, but you do want to be down and in front of them quickly, ideally in the first couple of drifts if you want a shot at the bigger fish. When euro nymphing, a crawdad and some kind of perdigon on your tag has been a very effective way to cover this water type. For the dry dropper, using a tan or golden colored chubby with a 2-3 foot dropper seems to be about right. Just make sure you’re using a nymph with enough weight to be able to get it down to them and a dry that has enough buoyancy to stay up in the faster water.

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