Donner Lake Oct 21-25

Cool report!  Mackinaw can be such fickle fish sometimes, which makes them a very intriguing target IMO.  Seems like you just need to stay on them until they choose to eat.  Makes sense: after slurping a 10 inch kokanee in cold water, it'd take a while to digest such a large meal so why chase down anything else?  I'm guessing you were using jigging spoons on these guys, right?

Plastics on each of the days except for the last;  Switched to a pLine on the last day.

Gotcha, thanks!  I hope to hit my local mack spot before the snows block access.  Maybe I'll bring some plastics.

Cool report!  Mackinaw can be such fickle fish sometimes, which makes them a very intriguing target IMO.  Seems like you just need to stay on them until they choose to eat.  Makes sense: after slurping a 10 inch kokanee in cold water, it'd take a while to digest such a large meal so why chase down anything else?  I'm guessing you were using jigging spoons on these guys, right?

Plastics on each of the days except for the last;  Switched to a pLine on the last day.

Gotcha, thanks!  I hope to hit my local mack spot before the snows block access.  Maybe I'll bring some plastics.

and don't forget the pro-cure.

Have you started fishing yet? I am going up to Reno this weekend and thinking of doing some fishing. I will be fishing out of a float tube, thinking where I should go?

Did you float tube any lakes? I'll be up there next week flyfishing with just my tube.
Probably hit Independence/Milton and Davis lakes and the Truckee if there's enough cool water.

Have you started fishing yet? I am going up to Reno this weekend and thinking of doing some fishing. I will be fishing out of a float tube, thinking where I should go?

Did you float tube any lakes? I'll be up there next week flyfishing with just my tube.
Probably hit Independence/Milton and Davis lakes and the Truckee if there's enough cool water.

Just kayaked. Independence lake looked like pretty good, the water wasn't extremely low. Didn't go around Davis lake at all. There are a few he fish trapped under Fanny Bridge by the Truckee Dam. There is dry riverbed above and below these guys. Noticed that there was reasonable water flow on the lower truckee as I drove up on the 21st, likely from the rain that the area got the week before. Check the mountain hardware report for advice on fishing in rivers, with respect to the high water temps, most of the rivers are open but fishing is not advised. http://www.mountainhardwareandsports.com/fishing-report

I remember hearing somewhere that there are no outside water craft allowed at Independence lake.  I know they have a rental fleet of Kayaks (seasonal; don't know the season, and I didn't see them), boats, and float tubes (saw a couple by the office next to a pile of PFDs).  Do you know more about this?

and don't forget the pro-cure.

Copy that.  Mackinaw are one of my "devil fish", in that every large one I've seen on the depthfinder has been extremely difficult to tempt to bite.  Sometimes I wish I could rig up a live kokanee and drop that little bugger into the face of a mondo mack to see what happens  .  The smaller ones under 5 pounds haven't been too difficult, but the big ones stymied me this last spring.  It was even more maddening when a guy jigging for kokes nearby landed a 35 inch mack on a 3/4 oz jigging spoon, and I'd been out there all day with large gear and could only muster little rats.  Oh man was I jealous!