Welcome to Eastern Sierra Fish Reports

Tim Hopkins with a great catch on Robinson Creek

BFEF welcomes Logan Van Houten from Ripon, Ca to the BFEF Tagged Trophy Trout Club. Yesterday he landed his BFEF TTT while fishing at Bridgeport Reservoir. He got it verified at Ken's and collected both his bragging rights picture and

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is anticipating good hunting for quail and chukar in 2024-25 as the statewide seasons for both open Saturday, Oct. 19 and run concurrently through Jan. 26. California has three native species of quail

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is excited to announce that adult fall-run Chinook salmon have begun occupying and spawning in newly accessible habitat behind the former dam locations on the Klamath River. These are the first observations

Whole lotta rainbows lately! While we're still scratching away at some big cutthroat and feisty browns, these chunky specimens have made up the majority of this fall bite. Plump, hard pulling, acrobatic rainbow trout from 12-18" have been standard with

Truckee River Autumn is definitely here! Changing leaves and early morning brisk temperatures have taken hold. Brown trout are starting to clean off shallow gravel areas in preparation for their Fall spawn. We haven’t seen any active spawning just yet,

Pyramid Lake  The larger Lahontan Cutthroat Trout are still on the deeper side, though the surface temps are cooling nicely, and shore fishing is picking up. The prolonged warm summer into fall has created an algae bloom that covers a

Today is our last day of the 2024 season! Thank you all for supporting our business for another great summer, we appreciate you so much!

We’ve had some slow reports from the Virginias but we’ve also had some pretty good reports from up there as well. It sounds like the folks that are getting out from the shore in tubes or kayaks are doing the

We’re still getting some good reports from the West lately with some nice browns and rainbows being caught up there. Bait anglers are having some success with salmon eggs and mini crawlers, lure anglers are using Rooster tails, Panther Martins

The Twins have fished ok this week with some anglers reporting not too many fish or just a few small fish while others are reporting having good days with 6+ fish to the net. There was a 9lb 3oz brown

This is an exceptional time of year to find some of the best trout fishing on this river. In our opinion the months of October and November are only rivaled by prime months such as March or June in terms