Wild Horse Reservoir is a reservoir in Nevada, near Elko County.
Wild Horse Reservoir is a reservoir in Elko County, Nevada and covers about 2,830 acres, reaches about 70 feet at its deepest point and holds roughly 92,500 acre-feet.
The size of Wild Horse Reservoir rewards a simple area-by-area plan instead of long random moves. Deep water at Wild Horse Reservoir gives fish room to move away from shore as summer heat and bright light build.
Wild Horse Reservoir is a high desert lake where trout, wipers, and black bass share cold spring water, warm summer edges, and a long winter ice season.
Use flies, worms, or small spoons for trout during cool hours, work rock and submerged plants with soft plastics for bass, and search open water with shad-shaped lures for wipers.
Rainbow, brown, and tiger trout are stocked, while wipers add an open-water target. Do not assume a trout report tells you where bass or wipers will be.
Rock outcrops and submerged vegetation become strong bass cover as the water warms. Trout may leave those shallow areas by midday and hold just outside the shelf.
Ice can create a separate winter fishery. Keep the bait above bottom for trout and use current ice information rather than relying on a calendar date.
The key difference is that this water is a high desert lake where trout, wipers, and black bass share cold spring water, warm summer edges, and a long winter ice season.
For a first trip, use flies, worms, or small spoons for trout during cool hours, work rock and submerged plants with soft plastics for bass, and search open water with shad-shaped lures for wipers.
Wild Horse changes sharply by season, so do not fish spring trout, summer bass, and winter trout with one depth or one lure.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.