I don’t know about you guys but on Saturday mornings I listen to the Bob Simms show on KFBK. He had Doug Ouellette calling into his show Saturday morning to describe how Pyramid Lake is fishing. As a side note he refined the popcorn beetle to be the fly it is now. Pretty much standard fair on the lake. His years of guiding Pyramid makes him one of the most knowledgeable experts of our beloved lake. He has retired from guiding. Now he has a service which provides his knowledge of guides on the lake to help you choose the right guide for your skill level. Side track over.
So Doug on the show gives his report and ends by saying Saturday Sunday and Monday will be good days to get on the lake because the lake fish love bad weather, low barometric pressure and winds. So the weather reports I checked for this week had a storm for over the weekend and lingering low pressure into Monday. I wanted to go so badly Monday but I didn’t want to contend with chaining the car to get over the top. I instead thought Tuesday, yesterday would be ok and make it work. Yesterday’s forecast was for some cloudiness highs in the low forties with light North winds. All the fishing reports mentioned the afternoon bite was starting after 1. Coming from Fair Oaks and fishing for the 1-4 bite isn’t worth it. It’s all or nothing. So as usual I get up at 4am and hit the road by 4:30. To do it right I should stay in Reno the night before to hit the lake at the legal time of an hour before sunrise. It worth it to get the early morning biters well at least once.
I arrive close to 7 but my flyline is in the water a just few minutes later. I chat with my lake expert expecting to hear Monday was a good day to fish. Apparently with the inclement weather, low pressure, winds from the Northwest, chop, no other fishermen, he smiled. I told him I bet he had a good day. He said he brought 17 to hand with over a hundred pounds of fish in total. Hell yes he a great day!!!! Among the catch were two over 15 pounds. I could have kicked myself. Oh and he said today wasn’t like Monday, it was slow!!!! So my sad story is I was tangled in knots all day. I got fish right off the start then tangles every time the catching started up again. I totaled three to hand but as BS calls them, they were rats.
This lake at this time of the year fished like many mountain lakes in July. Fish very early or fish very late to have your best chance of hooking up. I wish my drive wasn’t so long to get there. Getting up at 3 isn’t an option I want to take. Maybe I need to start hoteling.
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