The prime fishing season, at least for the Lake Tahoe area, begins on a typical year in late April and goes until Memorial Day, and then from just beyond Labor Day until the fall stream closure in around mid November. A few of the waters, such as the tributaries in the Lake Tahoe area will open up around July 4, so make sure to check the regulations. In other special regulation waters such as Milton Reservoir and Martis lake, the fishing is designated as catch and release only with single barbless hooks. These areas offer the chance for you to play with larger fish without having to worry about losing them.
As the summer waters grow warmer, fishing will slow down, crowds will grow and camping or lodging reservations will be required in the Lake Tahoe area. Locals follow the melting snow in search of waters that they can fish in the higher elevations. Lake fishermen can route trips so that they can fish more than a single lake at a time, or they can combine numerous streams and lakes in different elevations in order to find the most productive water temperatures.
Stream specialists will need to hike at least thirty minutes in from the road access in order to relieve some of the fishing pressure. In order to improve your results you should be fishing in difficult access points such as rocky banks and brushy spots, or pockets in the whitewater for example. Stream and lake fishing are going to peak both at dawn and dusk all throughout the summer.
Selecting Conventional Tackle
A medium action graphite rod in seven feet in length along with a medium weight spincast or spinning reel and 6-lb test line will suit both stream fisherman and lake bait or lure fishermen as well. Trollers may want to use a wind casting reel that isn't going to twist the line and then either a wire core or a lead core line, or perhaps downriggers to handle lake trout all throughout the year as well as for rainbow trout and brown trout all during the summer.
Lures that are cast or trolled in the lakes are going to make it possible for beginners to catch trout in the easiest way. Heavy copper spoons take the deep summer trout in the lakes as well as the river pools. Silver and black spoons are excellent for water that is off color. Copper Colorado blade spinners featuring plastic beads in the color red tend to work especially well when you are in a shallow stream. Spinners that feature French blades are going to be best suited for larger streams.
If you want to catch trout with spinning gear during the insect hatches in the summer, you should fish your fly about four feet beneath a bubble behaving as a floating weight. The flies that work best are Adams size 16, Gray Hackle Peacock size 14 and Royal Wulff size 12. You can buy individual flies to serve as spares if you want to buy a one of assortment.
Trollers can fish J-plugs to catch Mackinaw. Four inch plugs featuring rainbow trout finishes will take up the larger trout in comparison to the spinners and the spoons in the early part of the season. You should use deep running plugs once the waters become warm. When the summer is hot, boaters will usually troll flashers with bait or with small spoons, though plugs that are sunk using downriggers will also allow trout to fight better than when hardware is used.
Bait fishermen are going to need light wire hooks that are sized well to hide within the bait, and live baits tend to work the best. After the rain showers cause discoloration in the water, you should try to work with red worms on tiny split shot and size 12 hooks. Fish with worms on sliding sinking rigs when fishing in lakes. Natural baits end to be the best baits of all, including cased caddis, stump grubs and hellgrammites.
You can add split shots for casting wait or bobbers so you can keep the bait up off the bottom. There are other things you are going to want to have on hand to have the habits including your fishing license, your landing net, a thermometer, sunglasses, a tackle box or creel to hold all of your gear, boots or waders and bug spray. Beginners should definitely spend about an hour practicing casting and should be fishing in the lakes primarily as hey are easier than streams when you are just learning how to go fishing.
Photo Credits: greg hefner
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