Comments for Pyramid Lake Fly Fishing

Comment on Fishing Report by bill dyer

bill dyer — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 02:42:11 +0000

Well….Rob hope all is well with you and yours, just got back from Davis Lake, I know you guide up that way from time to time, so i hope you don’t mind me throwing a few lines on here about the lake. 4 of us fished for 3 days, and hooked a total of 20 trout. It was my first time fishing there and I was quite impressed. Not to confuse the fact that Pyramid is still my favorite but I’m thinking it still may be a little early except off the deep drop off beaches. to pound the water there. Maybe some feedback from you or some of the others on the site can set me straight and on my thoughts. The fish at Davis were quite aggressive using 2x tippet the strikes were so strong they snapped me off from the hit itself. Lot of fish in the shallows stripping through the weed beds some hot moments and then just like Pyramid some slow. It was all good though, as all of us who throw the fly know…it was great just being out there.
Looking forward to your reports and input in the future…

Comment on Fishing Report by Morgan

Morgan — Sat, 11 May 2013 15:53:08 +0000

A few of us were out camping the 2-4th of this month. The weather was cookn and the bite was pretty slow….and so was my hook set. The first day a buddy of mine was jiggin and landed 2. I missed 2….damn indy!

Fri the 3rd was one hekk of a hot day! I couldnt set a hook for the life of me. I broke one off early in the morn around 730-8. I knew i should have retied that knot….sob! Through out the day the fish figured out when i was watching the birds or that random car drive by. When ever i stopped paying attention i missed a fish. It took my 8th takedown to finally land a fish. I know…what a lame! And it was the rat this time. Of course i missed the bigger ones…or lost em w/ limp wrist hook sets cause i was spacing out. A few times i would see a cruiser…..”hey, it looks like he’s eating”. DOwn goes my indy…miss! It was a tough super hung over day for me.

Later that day my buddy shows up to camp for the night. About 30min in the dick head hooks up and lands a beautiful pilot peak female just under 10lbs @ 28″ and 13″ of girth. Very nice fish. I wanted to push him off the rock and into the water after that.

The following day I landed one more rat…this time under my indy. The day before i landed my fish stripping a black bugger. But the indy was way more prodcutive for take downs.

And after 2 nights camping and about 30hrs of fishing I only landed 2 fish. BUt i missd some big oppurtunities. Lots of big fish cruising but the numbers are low for catching. Well for me anyways. My other buddy that camped w/ me the whole time was spinning tossn jigs and spoons. He went 2 the first day…1 the second day. ANd 2 the third…one being a nice 6lb pilot.

The weather is beautiful and the fishing is peaceful. Lots of big cruisers around for sure. I bet w/ the help of someone like Rob you can have a banger day.

Comment on Fishing Report by bill dyer

bill dyer — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:43:38 +0000

Wanted to Post some news….like Rob said i believe that some news helps everyone make the choice to make the trip or not out to the lake…for me it’s from San Francisco
Fished 3 1/2 days hard….got there Sunday and hit the water around three in the afternoon..wind was a blowing….Fished Pelican and Windless could not get out at North nets because the waves would go over the top of your waders NO Fish..some of the old timers who have fished for years said it was pretty slow…they were right…
Monday….Hit Pelican….saw a few fish caught…i got into 2 fish….early morning, waves started to come over my basket on my chair so we called it……went south stopped at cattle guard, wino and sand hole, got a nice fish there on a beetle…went to North nets got one fish and didn’t get a tug the rest of the afternoon tried everything in my box and even put an indicator rig out…(not my favorite way to fish) nothing fished from sunup till 6;30 when the martini bell went off in my head..staying at Crosby’s and that Grey Goose bottle was in the freezer so I was able to avoid the shakes…cause it was only a short drive up the path.
Tuesday…North Nets….Slow morning…a fish here and there, but somewhere in the area of 12 noon the bite turned on quite nicely….fish up and down the line …I hooked about five fish..all in the slot size all appeared to be males….i would say equal amounts of fish were being caught stripping or indicator fishing….I did quite well on a double beetle rig white guy in front and darker one in back…indicator guys were using red and black as the basic color …mahalo’s were the ticket for some also..at 3 o’clock the bite turned off like someone hit a light switch….i did notice that the wind stopped blowing from the south and started coming in from the north when the bite stopped…not sure if that had anything to do with it but it was quick….
Wednesdays…fishing went back to be being a fish here and there…started at North Nets but like i said it was super slow…we made the trip down south to see if any of the deep drop off’s would do the trick….got one fish again at Sand hole. and after an hour or so ..as us crazy people do we went back up to North nets …it was still slow…. I managed to get 3 fish and i felt good because no one was getting anything around me on beetles agains…white with yellow tails…one of the guys i was fishing with switched over to the same and he got a couple of fish also….2 guys to the right of us…were indicator fishing and they managed to hit around 4 fish using a home tied fly with red and black in it using that holo stuff. and then it just died again…..some fish were being caught here and there but nothing like the day before…had the opportunity to meet some real nice guys from the LA area…a couple who fish in Hawaii from time to time for bones, Kelly introduced me to them and I just wanted to give a shout out to him and them if they read this…
Thursday….It was time to go home day….on the way out I went by the North Nets to see what was up…The LA guys were out 20 or so of them out on their chairs and ladders…i was sadden to hear it was slow again for them…kind of glad for me cause i wasn’t missing anything..and it was time to leave….my fishing heart sank but when you gotta go you gotta go…through out the long hours and grey goose fog .I think my time line in all of this is correct…you know that grey goose does strange things to a persons memory from time to time
Just some general bull_hit on my view…and then I’ll stop at the North Nets…there were fish around LOTS of fish…how do I know…you could see them swimming by no huge groups but lots of big fish in packs of 5 or 10 fish…..it was a steady stream on and off all day of these guys swimming by….the pelican’s in the shallows behind us were getting more fish then we were so they were around….no doubt in my mind….so what’s up…I guess it’s the same old story that has been going on for the last million years…and it has gotten many a human male into trouble at one time or another…SEX….i noticed that very few females were caught…mostly the smaller males..seemed to be hitting the flies…the bigger guys just swam by on the way to where their bodies and scent detected the water entering the lake…and the females sat…the hatchery….we stopped by the hatchery there were thousands of fish in the ladder waiting to go up…we were lucky, the state fish and game along with the tribe game people were working the nets, pulling fish for count, checking for tags on the fish, looking for the pilot peak fish, milking the eggs on the females, pulling the sperm from the males, and dividing the females who were not ready to be milked into a different pool to be re-entered into the lake so that they could come up the ladder again, in hopes that they would be ready to milk at a later date…it was quite a production….I’ve been up there before but never saw the operation in gear….it was quite impressive it was worth the half hour we spent there….talking to the biology people, watching the process and gathering information from them on what they believed made these fish tick….and react….learned a lot of stuff from them that i hope will come in handy in October when I head that way..again…The South Nets I’m certain had as many fish swimming by as the North Nets…problem is it a bitch to pull your chair out as far as you have to to get to the drop off….I saw only three people out there fishing now i’m not saying your were going to catch fish I’m just sure they were out there…..but all of this is just another story… and it will soon be Cabo time for me in a couple of months for roosters in the surf …I hope….anyway Tight Lines All… and Rob thanks again for this site…bill dyer

Comment on Fishing Report by bill dyer

bill dyer — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:09:23 +0000

In reply to BruceSmith.

Great Video…..showed it to a couple of guys and their so hot to go to pyramid to fish..they just about…..in their pants…..very, very well done….thank you for sharing it with everyone…getting somewhat excited my self because there’s only 8 more days and I’ll be heading Pyramid Lake Nv, way for 5 days of fishing…wow after using my cell phone to comment last time i can see the need to double check my spelling…anyway…tight lines everyone …and thanks for the post….Rob…hope to run into while we’re up there, i know i own you at least one beer for putting this web site together….don’t have to stop at one either….take care…bill dyer

Comment on Fishing Report by Bobk

Bobk — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:29:29 +0000

In reply to BruceSmith. Fantastic video Bruce! I'll be up there again around the 18th for 3-4 days. Take care Bob

Comment on Fishing Report by BruceSmith

BruceSmith — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:59:37 +0000

In reply to Bobk.

Bob,
Great to fish next to you. Sounds like Windless didn’t pay off like I was hoping it would. Good luck up there next time. Here is the link to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq-mLGUxDW0

Comment on Fishing Report by Bill Dyet

Bill Dyet — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:18:50 +0000

In reply to Bobk.

Thanks for the updates to all who post. Heading wp on the 20th
So all is information posted is helpful. Keep those line tight..
Bill Dyer

Comment on Fishing Report by Bobk

Bobk — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:55:31 +0000

I just got back from 4 days on the lake. Much better than 3 weeks ago The biggest for me was only 26″, Male, at 5.5lbs I mostly fished at S. nets. Got 4 Tues evening 18 on Weds. 4 on Thurs with 3 of those at Windless. Yesterday I caught 10 and this morning 3, both days at the S. nets Water is on and though I only saw a couple of cruising fish others saw quite a few. I caught 75% of my fish stripping a double Beetle rig. Water acording to my Therm. was 50 degrees….Bob

Comment on Fishing Report by Kevin Stearman

Kevin Stearman — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:44:54 +0000

April 4, 2013
Rob,
Saw LOTS of cruising fish yesterday… I started at Sandhole Beach around 8:30 am.
I had three really nice slot sized fish landed on buggers and leech patterns and over 2 dozen follows. It was very windy but nothing that wasn’t uncomfortable for Pyramid.
By the time i ended my day around 5:30 pm I must have seen 150 to 170 fish cruising as shallow as 2 feet of water, literally right on the edge of the shelf even along the shoreline. Seemed tht i had to change up colors and patterns every few casts and fish would follow from deeper water right up onto the shore BUT they wouldn’t commit to striking the fly. Also had a few really heavy hitters yet I couldnt keep them hooked up… a couple head shakes and off.

Tight lines Rob,

Kevin

Comment on Fishing Report by Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:15:03 +0000

In reply to Jesse. Thank u for the advice Rob, yea we been fishing their the last five years from Bishop CA. We always fish at pelican and we love the fishing but with a pretty good size family it is hard to get into a spot there. I was hoping maybye u have a different beach recommended??? And also thanks for the updates!!!!