What are a few of your favorite trout lakes in CA?

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

My first trout lake was Lake Solano on lower Putah Creek. We float-tubed it in the '60s & ‘70s.

Next was McCumber Reservoir east of Redding. This is one of my favorites.

We also fished Manzanita Lake on the same trips which is at a higher elevation just inside the Lassen Park.

We fished Martis and Milton out of Truckee.

Indian Creek Reservoir was fun.

The big deal for us in 1976 was Crane Prairie Reservoir in Oregon. Joe Patterson, our Cortland Rep, took us there.

After that we fished a bunch of lakes over in Nevada out of Elko.

[David Lee]

Hmmmmmm ..... That depends on what kind of Trout I want to catch .

For Browns , Milton was hard to beat in the late 80s , I don't know how it fishes now . Amador was good for sight-fishing those big CuttBows , but also has gone down the tubes due to trash and rednecks ...
I hope to take my first Mackinaw on a fly this coming winter in Sly park (Jenkinson) - they are neat fish !! David

[Rick J]

McCumber, Manzanita, Milton, Lewiston and hands down Davis as number 1

[Adam Grace]

Rancho Seco Baby

I like Fuller Lake for a guick day trip. It's a nice little lake.

I would like to fish Lake Davismore in the future. Those are hard fighting trout. I also like the huge hatches Lake Davis offers.

[Rob]

I like fishing smaller lakes like this one in the Trinity Alps.





We fished it for a week and had the lake all to our selves.

[Langenbeck]

In consecutive wet years McCoy Flat use to produce some very fat fish. When I was a CA resident I always thought the best stillwater fishing was the 2-3 week window in Oct. on Merle Collins, Berryessa and Oroville when the thread fin shad came to the surface in large schools and the trout chomped on them. Really exciting to see 10-15 trout jumping a school of shad on the surface and you only had seconds to react before all was calm again.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

I hear they recently had the annual spring trout derby at Rancho Seco so there are a ton of trout in there now.

Go get em.

http://www.smud.org/about/recreation/rancho.html

http://www.fishsniffer.com/maps/ranchoseco.html

This is a pretty nice place to go. Bass/panfish in the warmer months too.

Oars, paddles, sails or electric motors only.

[Gregg Machel]

I like fishing smaller lakes like this one in the Trinity Alps.

Wow, nice pictures. How successfull were you in that week? Reminds me of some hiking I did up in Tahoe last year, we ran into several lakes like that.

[Gregg Machel]

I forgot the names already of these lakes, but here is where I went near Tahoe (Overnight backpacking). Only bad thing was it was a 3,000 elevation climb and a 6-7 mile trip up there! I like to sleep comfortably so I carry a 60-70 lb pack too. I was too damn tired to do any fishing when I got up there, only did a little the following day.

[Rick J]

Rob is sure right about the Trinities and Marble Mountain Wilderness areas - spent many days up there in the late 60's and 70's and still make a trip up there once or twice a year - one place I don't mind keeping a few brookies for the frying pan.

Absolutley gorgeous photos - and truly spectacular country!!