Recreation
The river is heavily used for recreation, including whitewater rafting and fly fishing. A common rafting run is the River Ranch Run. Starting from the outlet gates at Lake Tahoe stretching about 3 miles (4.8 km), the run ends at the River Ranch Restaurant. These rapids are almost all class 1 and class 2. In downtown Reno the river has been sculpted into a half-mile Class 2/3 whitewater park, and is used mainly for kayaking.
The Truckee River is western Nevada’s largest river. It supports a large sport fishing population each year. Kim Tisdale, of the Nevada Department of Wildlife, is the state’s Western Regions Fishery Supervisor; she commented that NDOWs goal is for a catch rate of one to two fish per hour in the Truckee. To accomplish this, NDOW stocks a total of 105,000 trout per year. 70,000 of those are Lohantan Cutthroats and the rest are Rainbows. The Truckee also boasts an impressively healthy wild Brown Trout population that is totally sustainable.
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