"Lake Davis is an artificial lake in Plumas County, California near the Sierra Nevada community of Portola. It's waters are impounded by Grizzly Valley Dam, which was completed in 1966. The lake is named for Lester T. Davis (1906-1952)."

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I have been in the fishing tackle business in Sacramento for over 50 years so I remember Davis Lake in the 1970s.

The first 10 to 20 years of any new reservoir are always fantastic fishing with all the biomass breaking down.


Back then we heard stories that people from Reno, Nevada would drive to Davis lake with a Boy Scout troupe.

Every kid would get a limit of 10 fish to take home.


It was so wild that people gave away their catches so they could keep fishing.

I was not really know as a fly fishing lake back then.......it was know as a fish factory.

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