Weekly Report

For the week of August 17, 2026




Bay Area

Del Valle Lake: Del Valle Lake Angler Report:    Paul Clouse...
Paul Clouse and Al Hurwitz (Updated 2026-08-20)
Santa Cruz: Larger bluefin schools headed here?: For months...
Allen Bushnell (831) 423-4242 (Updated 2026-08-21)

Central California

No reports for this week!

Central Sierra

Boca Reservoir: Anglers should focus on the cooler morning and evening hours: Boca Reservoir...
Mountain Hardware & Sports (530) 587–4844 (Updated 2026-08-20)
Donner Lake: Fishing at Donner Lake has been fair: Fishing at...
Mountain Hardware & Sports (530) 587–4844 (Updated 2026-08-20)
Indian Creek Reservoir: The lake has a lot of algae along the shore: The lake...
Doug Busey (775) 267-9722 (Updated 2026-08-19)
Jackson Meadows Reservoir: Shore anglers are reporting a strong rainbow trout bite: Jackson Meadows...
Mountain Hardware & Sports (530) 587–4844 (Updated 2026-08-20)
Lake Kaweah: Kaweah remained steady at 14 percent of its storage capacity, and fishing was fair: Kaweah remained...
Chad Burton and Chris Borden (661) 679-6351 (Updated 2026-08-21)
Lake Tahoe: Lake Tahoe Fishing Report: The fishing...
Doug Busey (775) 267-9722 (Updated 2026-08-19)
Little Truckee River: There is still a good hatch of PMDs happening every day, providing some consistent dry action: The LT...
Trout Creek Outfitters (530) 563-5119 (Updated 2026-08-21)
Flows on the Little Truckee have dropped quite a bit between Stampede and Boca: Current Water Conditions Flows on the Little Truckee have...
Mountain Hardware & Sports (530) 587–4844 (Updated 2026-08-19)
Stampede Reservoir: Water levels at Stampede Reservoir continue to drop as summer progresses: Water levels...
Mountain Hardware & Sports (530) 587–4844 (Updated 2026-08-20)

Central Valley Rivers

No reports for this week!

Delta

No reports for this week!

Eastern Sierra

Big Virginia Lake: *Big Virginia Lake*: BFEF welcomes...
Ken Hoffman - BFEF (Updated 2026-08-20)
Bridgeport Reservoir: The lake level is getting low: The lake...
Doug Busey (775) 267-9722 (Updated 2026-08-19)
*Bridgeport Reservoir*: *Bridgeport Reservoir* BFEF loves to help getting kids hooked...
Ken Hoffman - BFEF (Updated 2026-08-17)
Caples Lake: Caples Lake Fishing Report: Renee and...
Doug Busey (775) 267-9722 (Updated 2026-08-19)
East Carson River: The water level has dropped a lot, but the river is still very fishable: The water...
Doug Busey (775) 267-9722 (Updated 2026-08-19)
East Walker River: The East is running at about 221 cfs today: The East...
Kens Sporting Goods Staff (760) 932.7707 (Updated 2026-08-23)
Topaz Lake: The lake level is still dropping, in just one week, the level went down another 5 or so feet: The lake...
Doug Busey (775) 267-9722 (Updated 2026-08-19)
Truckee River: The temps along most of the Truckee have dropped: The temps...
Trout Creek Outfitters (530) 563-5119 (Updated 2026-08-21)
Flows are still really great for this time of the year: Flows measuring 279 CFS out of Tahoe City,...
Mountain Hardware & Sports (530) 587–4844 (Updated 2026-08-19)
Twin Lake Lower: 3lb rainbow caught from a kayak: Leon Gilbert...
Twin Lakes Resort Staff (760) 932-7751 (Updated 2026-08-22)
Twin Lakes (Bridgeport): We had some very good reports from the Twins this past week: We had...
Kens Sporting Goods Staff (760) 932.7707 (Updated 2026-08-23)
Virginia Lakes: Virginias are still producing very well from the shore as well as from tubes: It sounds...
Kens Sporting Goods Staff (760) 932.7707 (Updated 2026-08-23)
West Carson River: The water level is very low and slow-flowing: The water...
Doug Busey (775) 267-9722 (Updated 2026-08-19)
West Walker River: We had some pretty good fly fishing reports from the West this week: We had...
Kens Sporting Goods Staff (760) 932.7707 (Updated 2026-08-23)

Lassen-Plumas

Feather River: The Feather River is settling into the summertime blues: Current Water...
Mountain Hardware & Sports (530) 587–4844 (Updated 2026-08-20)
Gold Lake: The recently stocked lakes like Gold Lake are still worth getting out and enjoying: Most of...
Mountain Hardware & Sports (530) 587–4844 (Updated 2026-08-20)
Lake Davis: Lake Davis Guide Report: From Mike...
J&J's Grizzly Store Staff (530) 832-0270 (Updated 2026-08-21)
Water temperatures are in the upper 60s in the morning and climbing to mid 70s in the afternoon: Water temperatures are in the upper 60s in...
Mountain Hardware & Sports (530) 587–4844 (Updated 2026-08-20)

North Coast

No reports for this week!

Saltwater

Santa Cruz: Larger bluefin schools headed here?: For months...
Allen Bushnell (Updated 2026-08-21)
Bass Tub Sportfishing: We have lots of room this Friday for a rockfish and lingcod trip! : We have...
Aaron Anfinson (Updated 2026-08-19)
Bluefin Surprise & Rockfish Rampage!: Well that was fun! Went out this morning...
Aaron Anfinson (Updated 2026-08-17)
California Dawn Sportfishing: Great weekend on the water fishing the coast: Great weekend...
James Smith (Updated 2026-08-23)
Both boats fishing the southern rockfish grounds along the coast: We had 2 trips out today, both boats...
James Smith (Updated 2026-08-22)
Salmon turned back on again today: Salmon turned back on again today. We finished...
James Smith (Updated 2026-08-19)
Phenix Rods sponsored deep water trip to the islands today: We had a Phenix Rods sponsored deep water...
James Smith (Updated 2026-08-17)
Fish Emeryville: Sunday Am Update: Good morning...
Fish Emeryville (Updated 2026-08-23)
Fish Emeryville's Scores for 8/23/2026 :: Good afternoon anglers! Scores for 8/23/2026: New Huck Finn •...
Fish Emeryville (Updated 2026-08-23)
Friday Am Update: Good morning anglers, We have 12 boats out today...
Fish Emeryville (Updated 2026-08-22)
Fish Emeryville's Scores for 8/22/2026 :: Good afternoon anglers! Scores for 8/22/2026: New Huck Finn •...
Fish Emeryville (Updated 2026-08-22)
Great time reeling in some “Fall Hogs”: Good Afternoon TigerFishermen, Today’s 6 man charter turned into...
Allen Chin (Updated 2026-08-22)
Great last couple days: Great last couple days. Yestday the Sea Wolf...
Jon Yokomizo (Updated 2026-08-22)
Friday Am Update: Good Morning Anglers and Happy Friday! Yesterday's catches were- Fish...
Fish Emeryville (Updated 2026-08-21)
Fish Emeryville's Scores for 8/21/2026 :: Good afternoon anglers! Scores for 8/21/2026: New Huck Finn •...
Fish Emeryville (Updated 2026-08-21)
Thursday Am Update: Good morning anglers!!! 5 boats out today and...
Fish Emeryville (Updated 2026-08-20)
Fish Emeryville's Scores for 8/20/2026 :: Good afternoon anglers! Scores for 8/20/2026: Scallywag • Full Day...
Fish Emeryville (Updated 2026-08-20)
We made it out with a small group of salmon fishermen: Good Evening TigerFishermen, We made it out with a...
Allen Chin (Updated 2026-08-20)
Wednesday AM Update: Good morning anglers, Salmon update coming around noon today so stay tunned! We will be going for more...
Fish Emeryville (Updated 2026-08-19)
Fish Emeryville's Scores for 8/19/2026 :: Good afternoon anglers! Scores for 8/19/2026: Lady K • Full...
Fish Emeryville (Updated 2026-08-19)
Tuesday Am Update: Good morning anglers, The Captains are killing it with Bluefin!! Hogs for sure!! We will post more...
Fish Emeryville (Updated 2026-08-18)
Scores for 8/18/2026: Good Afternoon Anglers! Scores for today 8/18/2026: New Huck...
Fish Emeryville (Updated 2026-08-18)
Monday Am Update: Good morning anglers, Happy Monday! We have 2 boats out today and will post scores when back! The...
Fish Emeryville (Updated 2026-08-17)
Fish Emeryville's Scores for 8/17/2026 : Bluefin continue!!: Good evening anglers!! Just two trips out today...
Fish Emeryville (Updated 2026-08-17)
Happy Hooker Sportfishing: 48 Lingcod: Wide Open...
Jonathon Smith (Updated 2026-08-23)
Wide open lingcod: Great day on shallow water Lingcod. Today they...
Jonathon Smith (Updated 2026-08-22)
Limits of lingcod and rockfish: We struck out on halibut today because the...
Jonathon Smith (Updated 2026-08-21)
Hog Heaven Sportfishing: Hog Heaven Sunday Report: Today we...
Sean Hodges (Updated 2026-08-23)
The Gaveney Gang: The Gaveney gang has been coming salmon fishing...
Sean Hodges (Updated 2026-08-22)
Wide open early limits: Wide open early limits for 9 anglers catching...
Sean Hodges (Updated 2026-08-21)
Lovely Martha Sportfishing: Summer salmon season wrap up. : 8/23/26. Today...
Mike Rescino (Updated 2026-08-23)
Half day rockfish trip : 8/22/26. Today we ran a 1/2 day rockfish...
Mike Rescino (Updated 2026-08-22)
Successful late departure charter: 8/21/26. Today we left the dock at 10:30am...
Mike Rescino (Updated 2026-08-21)
Chuck had the hot rod!!: 8/20/26. Chuck had the hot rod today. We...
Mike Rescino (Updated 2026-08-20)
Different day Same results : 8/18/26. Same results different day. We finished up...
Mike Rescino (Updated 2026-08-18)
Monday salmon report : 8/17/26. Another great day on the salmon grounds....
Mike Rescino (Updated 2026-08-17)
Riptide Sportfishing: Deep reef rock fish and Bonita : Another day...
William Smith (Updated 2026-08-23)
Salmon limits. : We had a light loat today of 4...
William Smith (Updated 2026-08-18)
Rock fish and bonita: We had a light load for rock fishing....
William Smith (Updated 2026-08-17)
Salty Lady Sportfishing: De da de da de… day’s all folks !! Last day of summertime kid trips today.: That’s a...
Jared Davis (Updated 2026-08-20)
Another great Salmon day: Another great day of Salmon fishing today. Many...
Jared Davis (Updated 2026-08-18)
Simple physics really….: Well today we ran an experiment and came...
Jared Davis (Updated 2026-08-17)

Shasta-Trinity

Shasta Lake: Shasta Lake Brown and Rainbow Trout eating like pigs: The past...
Scott Caldwell (530) 905-0758 (Updated 2026-08-20)

Sierra Foothills

No reports for this week!

Wine Country North

No reports for this week!
Weekly Reports
Bay Area
Central California
Central Sierra
Central Valley Rivers
Delta
Eastern Sierra
Lassen-Plumas
North Coast
Saltwater
Shasta-Trinity
Sierra Foothills
Wine Country North


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