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Fishing The Lake

Regulations:

Fishing regulations change annually, check in the California Sport Fishing Regulations for current changes.

Fishing Lake Camanche requires a special fishing access permit, obtainable at either the North or South Camanche Recreation Areas. A fishing access permit must be in your possession while fishing, in addition to a state fishing license.


  • Trout: Open season all year. Limit: five
  • Bass: Open season all year. Limit: five bass. Minimum length: twelve inches.
  • Catfish: Open season all year. Limit: twenty (except Bullheads no limit.)
  • Crappie: Open season all year. Limit: twenty-five
  • Other species: Other species of fish may be taken in any number and at any time of the year by angling.
Trout: (rainbow & brown trout)
In the cooler winter months, trout can be found holding in the top 15 feet. Warmer months put the fish in depths to 35 feet and more. Anglers can find fish near the dam, spillway, and from the south shore marina, over to the north shore, down to the dam. Trollers use nightcrawlers, Needlefish, Rainbow Runners, and lures in any combination of red, white, silver, gold colors pulled behind Sep's Colorado flashers.

Bait fishermen will have luck using minnows or nightcrawlers under a bobber, or drifting green-sparkle Power Bait. Bank fishermen using Power Bait, nightcrawlers, Kastmaster and other casting lures in gold or fluoresent orange, have the best luck.

Bass: (largemouth, smallmouth, spotted)
Look for largemouth in the coves. Chartruese and white spinnerbaits, deep diving crankbaits in shad colors often produce. Other lures to try, Green Weenies, Gitzits, and plastic worms. Find smallmouths and spotted bass on points with gravel and rocky bottoms. Throw spinnerbaits across points. In deeper water try jigs, and split-shotting plastic baits. Smoke with chartruese tails is the preffered color.
Crappie - Panfish:
Find Crappie at the entrance to south harbor and north Rabbit Creek. Soak minnows and mini-jigs in the tree tops in the mouth of Camanche Arm, and the mouth of the north shore of Campers Cove. Bluegill anglers use redworms and small Roostertails, in the shallows along submerged brush, and around the tops of trees.
Catfish:
Cats hang out in the backs of coves, around the narrows, and along the south shore cliffs. Nightcrawlers, chicken livers, cutbaits do the trick.