Oct 2023 LAKE ALMANOR FISHING MAP AND FISHING REPORT- and Plumas Hunting Clubs and Ranches

LAKE ALMANOR  FISHING MAP AND FISHING REPORT- see local Hunting Clubs and Hunting and Fishing Ranches Below

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   Lake Almanor

   Reservoir

   
   

   Lake Almanor is in northwestern Plumas County. The reservoir has a capacity of 1,300,000 acre feet and  is somewhat shallow  about 90 feet. It is Damed on the North Fork of the Feather River, as inflow  Benner and Last Chance Creeks, Hamilton Branch

   
   

   
   
   

   Depth: varies to 90 ft

   Length: 13 miles

   Surface area:  44 square miles

   Surface elevation: 4,505 ft

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  October 2O23

 

 CHESTER — Lake Almanor is full  and the holiday week boaters will  have the lake in an uproar during  the daytime, but trollers who get  out early and fish later in the  evening will still find good trout  action, 

Clear water and 73-degree  surface temperatures  have the fish hunkered on the  bottom and anglers will find  cooler water targeting fish at 35  feet and deeper,

Slow  troll nightcrawlers and Gulp!  baits at l mph or less on a small  hook {size 6 or smaller) with or  without a dodger. Bass fishermen  continue to pick up quality fish  off deep points on plastics.

 Fishermen are catching fish  from shore, slow trolling with  flies and on anchor. Almanor  cocktails, nightcrawlers, plastics,  nymphs and dries are producing  quality browns, rainbows, kings  and smallmouth bass.  

The hex hatch is drawing a lot  of activity each evening,  in Geritol Cove this  past Thursday and there were  even more between the USFS and  Almanor West.

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Trout fishing at  Lake Almanor in October is picking up, trolling  Needlefish and Rapalas,  at 2 to 3 mph at depths between 10 and 25 feet. You can try trolling  worms  with   dodgers in the areas adjacent to Rec  1 and Rig Cove. Fly fishing coves of  Geritol, Keddie and Roadside most use float tubes in the shallows in the  mornings. Three pound rainbows are fairly abundant.

Bass are off the points and rocky structures. Locals like live bait, crawlers and grasshoppers,  but plastic worm rigs work well too.

  Small Mouth Bass on the Bite Lake Almanor

With an abundance  of Rainbows, German browns and  king salmon (kokenee), Lake Almanor  has lots of options, but  to add to the fun there is  a great Smallmouth bass fishery that’s  about to bite. 

 Lake Almanor  has lots of ledges and drop-offs the bass prefer, but soon  bass should start to move into the  shallows now.  Use black or brown pig-n-  jigs as well as other makes.  

 Use our Fishing map for best spots shoreline fishing, especially on the  north end of Almanor’s west arm, near the  causeway.

 In late spring, our fish report concludes using fishing copper-colored or  dark brown jigs that range from an inch to 4  inches long.  Fish deeper as the sunlight  gets brighter with drop offs at Catfish Beach, the Causeway, and other points  but the lake is so low you will have to find different areas .

See our fishing report to reference the lake’s west side, where the airport runway is down to the  dam, where there is   gravel along the bottom,  a significant spawning area.

Smallmouths will be done  spawning by the middle of May, so move is offshore from Rocky Point to Fox Farm, near the  island.  The west side of the lake was a meadow before dammed and springs still seep like before the  lake was here, attracting fish.

The east arm flows through  a former small canyon.  Live bait fishermen  use the best live bait, Webb advised, is  crickets, followed by crayfish.    

 Salmon fishing Fishing Report and Information

In  Lake Almanor there is a burgeoning number  of king salmon that weigh between  3 and  5 pounds, and there are plenty of them.  Our fishing report concludes there are large schools of Japanese smelt in Almanor,  the main food sources for the kings.  Trolling shad raps and jigging is the best method. 

Camping On Line Reservations

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Oregon and California hunting and fishing  maps of hunting clubs, hunting ranches, public and private fishing.

Click on a county for Hunting Clubs & Private Ranches:

ALAMEDA	ALPINE	AMADOR	BUTTE	CALVERAS
COLUSA	CONTRA COSTA	EL DORADO	DEL NORTE	FRESNO
GLENN	HUMBOLDT	IMPERIAL	INYO	KERN
LASSEN	LAKE	LOS ANGELES	MARIN	MENDOCINO
MONTEREY	MERCED	NAPA	PLACER	RIVERSIDE
SACRAMENTO	SANTA CLARA	SANTA BARBARA	SAN BERNADINO	SANTA CRUZ
SAN DIEGO	SAN FRANCISCO	SAN JOAQUIN	SAN LUIS OBISPO	SHASTA
SISKIYOU	SOLANO	SONOMA	TEHAMA	TRINITY
YOLO	YUBA	HUNTING AND FISHING MAPS	HUNTING CLUBS &RANCHES  SITE	CONTACT US

Click on a county for OREGON Hunting Clubs & Private Ranches:

COOS HUNTING FISH	GILLIAM HUNTING FISH	GRANT HUNTING FISH	HARNEY HUNTING FISH	HOOD HUNTING FISHING
KLAMATH HUNTING FISH	MORROW HUNTING FISH	SHERMAN HUNTING FISH	ST.HELENS HUNTING FISH	WHEELER HUNTING FISH
HUNTING FISH	HUNTING FISH	HUNTING CLUBS & RANCHES SITE	HUNTING & FISHING MAPS	CONTACT US

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www.ranchhuntandfish.com