2015 Pyramid Lake Opening Week
World class fishing is happening at Pyramid Lake in Nevada. Opening day was October 1st and the fishing reports were ridiculous. So ridiculous that on October 3rd I made a half day trip just to be part of the excitement. I wanted to stick around town and watch my daughter’s soccer game and as soon as the game ended I raced out to the Lake and bummed a ride on my buddy’s boat. Not 10 minutes after leaving the boat ramp we started catching fish. After releasing a beautiful cutthroat, I found myself gazing into the water thinking to myself how beautiful Pyramid Lake is nestled in the Nevada Desert, when I noticed something wrong. I knew we were around 50 feet of water so I couldn’t understand how the bottom of the lake was rapidly coming into my view. “We are going to hit bottom!” I shouted. Then it dawned on me. It wasn’t the bottom, it was a huge school of chub the size of a house heading by us just a few feet under the boat. I quickly grabbed my rod and dropped my lure straight down through the stampede of tui chub. My line went to a dead stop somewhere around 20 feet down. I set the hook and immediately the reel screams the drag. The cutthroat on my line headed straight down and then bulldogs directly away from the boat. Pyramid Lake has a new strain of cutthroat trout, it’s called the Pilot Peak strain and it is an extremely strong fighting powerful trout. This is exactly the type of fish that I have on my line. I know better than to relax until these trophy trout hit the net. Incredibly, only 15 minutes after arriving at the Lake, I’m holding a monster cutthroat trout nearly 3 feet long. Incredible fishery
Just 15 minutes on the lake
