Can't beat the Ladders (Page 2): They use kitchen ladders. Walk out until you are up to your chest and put your ladder down and start fishing. Usually up to the first rung from the...

OldBassGuy Loc: Temecula, CA

They use kitchen ladders. Walk out until you are up to your chest and put your ladder down and start fishing. Usually up to the first rung from the top. Yep that is the Pyramid closer to Reno. Have seen as many as 20+ ladders lined up all in a row about 20 yds apart

Fish Dancer Loc: Guntersville, Alabama

cnewton700 wrote:

If you can stand the sometimes paralyzing cold, a long list of regulations, and a 50% increase
in last year's already high fishing fees, Pyramid Lake is loaded with double-digit Cut-throat trout.
This 15-pounder fell for one of my home-made jigs while l was ladder fishing last week.

Nice fish cnewton.
If I hooked into a fish that size while sitting on a ladder 🪜 it would probably pull me into the drink and drown me. 😂

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

cnewton700 wrote:

If you can stand the sometimes paralyzing cold, a long list of regulations, and a 50% increase
in last year's already high fishing fees, Pyramid Lake is loaded with double-digit Cut-throat trout.
This 15-pounder fell for one of my home-made jigs while l was ladder fishing last week.

That’s a huge cut throat. Nice job. I’ve never seen one that big. A really nice one here where I live in Idaho, and we do have some nice ones, is about 4 pounds and a 4 pound cut throat is a good fish for a cut throat in my book. That one there is amazing. Looks like one of our B run steelhead. Except for the head of course😆

OldBassGuy Loc: Temecula, CA

cnewton700 wrote:

If you can stand the sometimes paralyzing cold, a long list of regulations, and a 50% increase
in last year's already high fishing fees, Pyramid Lake is loaded with double-digit Cut-throat trout.
This 15-pounder fell for one of my home-made jigs while l was ladder fishing last week.

Hey Cnewton, would you by chance know my brother-in-law Kermit? He has been fishing there for years, mostly from his pontoon float the last couple of years. He also does real well there

Elefantdude Loc: Oxnard, CA

Spiritof27 wrote:

Always looking to learn something new. What is ladder fishing? Never heard of it. That is a nice trout, thanks for sharing that photo. You look miserable and happy both at the same time. I know of two pyramid lakes in California. Which one is that? Looks way too rough for me - I'd be on my butt and taking on salt.

Hi Spirit and Happy New Years. I first saw pictures of anglers fishing from ladders at Pyramid Lake in Nevada when I lived in Idaho 4 years ago. I was researching big trout fishing in Nevada, because we lived on the SW corner of Idaho and it was fairly close. Now, I live in Livermore, Ca - East Bay California and have been invited to fish several times from our kayaks at Pyramid Lake. Mu buddies have been slaying it up there and are hitting it this weekend again!!! Attached are pictures of angler's fishing from the shoreline - using chairs and ladders to get their lures/baits out as far as they can to hit the drop-offs just off the shallows. Also attached are some of my fellow kayak anglers, catching some of those huge Lohantan Cutthroats at Pyramid Lake :-) Someday I will hit it and hopefully soon, since I cannot make it this weekend :-(

Do what you gotta do!!!
Do what you gotta do!!!...

Cold but manageable :-)
Cold but manageable :-)...

Some day, that will be me! LOL!

Baddonut Loc: Pittsburg CA

cnewton700 wrote:

If you can stand the sometimes paralyzing cold, a long list of regulations, and a 50% increase
in last year's already high fishing fees, Pyramid Lake is loaded with double-digit Cut-throat trout.
This 15-pounder fell for one of my home-made jigs while l was ladder fishing last week.

Fantastic fish dude! Good skills, cold and perching on a ladder!

cnewton700 Loc: So California

you got it

MAS fish Loc: Peoria,IL

Spiritof27 wrote:

My bad. There's a pyramid lake up here by me, but it's in Nevada. I would guess that that's the one you're fishing? Still no clue what ladder fishing is.

This is what it looks like Spirit and they do quite well catching some big trout.
MAS fish

linegod2K Loc: Lago Vista, Texas

Fishing off of ladders is just a way to get you above the water for better casting.
The only place I have ever seen it used is at Pyramid lake Nv.
They have two strains of cut throat trout there.
One is very large and sluggish. It was introduced by the tribe for a commercial fish I think back in the 1920s.
The other is smaller but fights like hell.
Best shore / ladder fishing Nov through Feb.
btw it windy.

cnewton700 Loc: So California

That would be the Pilot's Peak strain linegod2k. I was told their growth rate is 3X that of the Lahonton and they are very aggressive.

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Well kudos to the guy or gal who figured out he/she could catch more fish in Pyramid lake from a ladder than from just standing on the shore. What it used to say at the bottom of my posts.

michael4now Loc: wilder id

very very nice

hacksaw Loc: Pasadena, Texas

Spiritof27 wrote:

Always looking to learn something new. What is ladder fishing? Never heard of it. That is a nice trout, thanks for sharing that photo. You look miserable and happy both at the same time. I know of two pyramid lakes in California. Which one is that? Looks way too rough for me - I'd be on my butt and taking on salt.

Spirit, I looked up ladder fishing and it took me directly to Pyramid Lake Fisheries. Check it out. I never heard of it either.
https://www.pyramidlakefisheries.org/fishmap.html

OldBassGuy Loc: Temecula, CA

I have ladder fished at Pyramid and can honestly say it was fun UNTIL the weather changed. By bro-in-law is sold on the idea that the worse the weather, the better the fishing. I was standing on the ladder, wind came up to about 20-30 knots, started snowing, white caps, and had some lightning in the distance. I left for the comforts of the car, and he stayed and caught a couple of nice fish. Too many nice days in my life to fish that way. Kind of like the weather Cnewt had in his picture with his great catch. I will leave it to you younger folks.

Elefantdude Loc: Oxnard, CA

OldBassGuy wrote:

I have ladder fished at Pyramid and can honestly s... (show quote)

I feel trout bite more in rougher weather and waters myself. I was fishing Collins Lake, California, last November, trolling lures from my kayak. I had caught a few that day and was trolling around noon when the clouds got thicker, wind started blowing and it started raining AND snowing!!! I started trolling fast, back to the marina and caught and released 3 trout on the way in!!! It sold me :-)