Bobber - A small float that is fastened to the fishing line a distance above the hook. This is used to both control the depth that the hook will sink to and to serve as a strike indicator. Some bobbers allow the line to freely pass through them and do not control the depth of the hook, these are known as being slip bobbers.

Bottom Feeder - Also known as bottom fish, these are fish, like carp and catfish that get the vast majority of their food from the bottom of the body of water they inhabit. While fish like trout are sometimes caught on the bottom, because they do not mainly eat from the bottom they are not considered bottom feeders.

Bow-fishing - A method using a bow with an attached reel to catch fish

Bomber Long "A" - This is the brand name of a variety of crank bait.

Bucket Mouth - A nickname used to refer to largemouth bass, or bigmouth bass.

Brackish - This is a word to describe water that has salinity level that is in between fresh and salt water.

Break - A clear change in an otherwise uniform stretch of cover, bed type, or structure. This covers anything that would be said to “break up” the aquatic terrain.

Break-Off - This refers to a fish that escapes due to the fishing line breaking rather than the hook getting dislodged from the fish for any reason.

Broodfish - A fully grown fish that has reached sexually maturity. These are the fish that are used to produce eggs in hatcheries.

Brook Trout - Also known as a brookie, this is a species of trout that is a popular game fish.

Brownie - This is a name that is used for both brown trout and smallmouth bass.

Brown Trout - Also known as German browns, this is another popular game fish for many people.

Brushline - This is either an inner or outer border of an area of brush.

Brush Pile - This refers to any pile of brush that can be man made or naturally occurring, range in size from a few branches piled together to a large mound, and they can be completely underwater and hard to see or they can rise up above the water level. The cover they provide make them a favorite spot for fish and anglers.

Buffalo Fish - Found in some of the lakes in the Salt River chain, the buffalo fish is a carp like fish with a heavy body that can grow to a weight of 39 pounds.

Bumping - To hit an underwater object like a rock or log with the lure intentionally or not in such a way that it is likely to draw the attention of nearby fish to provoke a strike.

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Originally posted 2009-12-01 03:44:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Party boats generally leave out of Kings Beach, Tahoe City, Homewood and also South Lake Tahoe. There are guided trips which end to be the best way for you to learn about the lake. If you have to go out on your own, stick to the reef areas off of Tahoe City.

Fishing for Mackinaw

Lake trout, also known as Mackinaw or Macs are typically caught using plugs that are being trolled using downriggers, lead core or wire lines from ledges that are 100 to 300 feet in depth in Lake Tahoe. This is a fairly high tech method of catching lake trout, and so it is generally a good idea for you to try a party boat. When you troll on your own, you may end up losing a lot of wire line and terminal gear as a result of nasty ledges. If you absolutely have to, choose a windless day and jig heavy spoons.

Depth finders as well as cross bearings are going to help you locate and then return to the more productive spots. Three trolling runs or drifts at each of the locations is generally plenty, and move if you are not catching fish. If you do catch a fish, then try that same ledge again. These Mackinaw generally tend to bunch up along with big fish in groups of two or three or even four to create spawning pods. Small Mackinaw will typically school. The trolling direction is something that can be quite critical, so make sure that you are circling the spot and trying again to turn luck in your favor if you need to.

Jig fishing and bait fishing are going to peak in the winter and the spring out of Tahoe City, especially in the water between 50 feet and 150 feet in depth. Most fishermen will use a medium weight cast with 200 yards worth of 12 or 20 lb test. Lighter tackle is lightly not going to move the bigger Mackinaw up off of the lake bottom.

Heavy spoons are more than capable of taking fish, as well as cod jigs. Drop lures down to the bottom, reel them up about a foot and them pump them with a three or four foot slow action.

Locals are catching Mackinaw using minnows, especially in the shallows between Stateline and Tahoe City along the North shore, as well as along South Tahoe's sandy bottom. You are going to want to catch your own, which is something that you can do along shallow and rocky areas using a wire mesh trap for minnows along with a can of dog foot that has holes punched in it so that the smell can escape. Make sure that you are only using local minnows because all other minnows are illegal here.

Boat Fishing: Brown and Rainbow Trout

In the spring season and the fall, if you stay close to the pier lines or the shore and you troll as fast as you possibly can, then you can probably take up a nice haul of trout. You should be using a spoon or a between 3 and 4 inch minnow plug with a brown trout finish or a rainbow trout finish using between 4 lb and 6 lb test line. In areas where extremely steep banks are present, you may need to scratch the rock in shore using the tip of your rod. The reason for this is the extremely steep nature of the Tahoe shore which occasionally drops off to more than 200 feet, and trout know that the food is in the shallower waters.

Because the lake is relatively sterile, the best place for fishing is generally going to be near the streams where food is washed into the lake, and the shallows where the algae is present and broadening the food chain significantly. Make sure to check out the regulations as some streams have a setback of 200 yards until they are opened up again in the summer.

Plugs for shallow running and heavy spoons tend to be best indicated for spring and fall seasons when it is possible to troll or to anchor off of the mouths of the streams, casting your lures there. Bait fishing tends to be more productive in the winter months and the summer months which is when the deep running plugs and the depth finders help make it possible to find the trout that you seek.

Experts tend to agree that fishing in Lake Tahoe is always going to be better before the sun hits the water rather than after, as well as on days that are naturally cloudy or overcast. During the spring, pollen tends to be concentrated on the surface as a result of the winds, and the rainbows are generally feeding just below these pollen rafts.

Great Spots: Try checking out Tahoe City, Sand Point Recreation Area, Dollar Point and the Emerald Bay entrance.

Kokanee

Most people are in agreement that the best place for Kokanee fishing in Tahoe is off of South Tahoe, especially along the beaches. When you are here, the bait is going to work best over the sandy bottoms, and trollers are generally fishing at between 50 feet and 75 feet using flashers with corn, worms, spoons and wedding-ring style rigs. The results and the methods are going to change based on the wind and the weather, so it is important for you to speak to someone at a local tackle shop to gain more information.

Locals tend to claim better Kokanee results when they visit Stampede, Donner Lake and Boca Reservoirs, as well as some lakes such as Bullards Bar, New Melones and Comanche. Some people feel that Tahoe Kokanee fishing is only going to improve as the clarity of the water declines as a result of algae growth which is responsible for broadening the base of the food chain in the area.

You should try the mouth of the Emerald Bay, near the feeder creeks and the inlet for the river as well as over the sand bottom which is just a bit offshore from the beach when you reach South Tahoe. It might be a good idea for you to begin with a guided fishing day that is booked through a fishing guide in the local area.

Shore Fishing in Lake Tahoe

Tahoe Tributaries tend to open up later than the normal stream trout opener for California so make sure that you are checking out local regulations for the stream that you are interested in.

All of the tributaries are going to have closed areas of 200 yards at their mouths in order to protect the spawning browns and rainbows, which occurs between October 1 and June 30. Locals tend to fish with baits, including minnows, crayfish tails and night crawlers, and they may also use lures like small copper spinners, black spoons, silver spoons and streamer flies. You should be fishing as close as possible to these setback lines from the fall to the spring. Locals tend to catch big spawners during the first week after opening and then again just before closing in the fall.

Smaller streams, lake chains and tiny brooks that feed the lakes are capable of being outstanding during the month of July. Try to use a cautious upstream approach using a tiny spinner on smaller test line.

The morning following a big storm, you should fish on the downwind side of the lake using crayfish finished plugs, crayfish tails and copper spoons. Cast just barely offshore in about two feet to five feet worth of water.

Photo Credits: josh shaw, flashgordonmd, TahoeSunsets

Originally posted 2009-09-14 03:12:52. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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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

Originally posted 2009-09-22 03:54:55. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Local waters will get a lot of attention especially during the winter and the summer when this place becomes a popular and crowded vacation spot. The local waters become so popular that there are five fish limits all through the year. Fishing is definitely year round, and Tahoe is always available because there is no freezing. Boca, Prosser and Stampede are going to offer dandy fishing in the ice all throughout the winter. Locals do a lot of their fishing in the ice in the face of the dams. The rock facing on these dams is capable of hiding minnows and plenty of other food. Make sure to bring some large rock with you that you can grow into the ice in order to determine its level of safety. Good offerings for this place are crappie jigs, worms, jigging spoons and also power bait. The fishing at Donner lake will peak in March, April and May if the lake is not frozen at this time.

Prosser and Boca

Truckee residents fish Prosser looking for pan sized rainbow trout to fill their stomachs all year long. Approximately 5 miles from the town, all winter it will offer ice fishing consistently with 10 inch to 14 inch rainbows. There is good summer shore fishing on the main inlet at Prosser. During July there are consistent hatches in the evening hours if the lake is full around the Aldar Creek mouth where the meadow is flooded, but mainly after the sun has already left the water. Big brown trout also are not unknown in Prosser, especially along the outlet to the creek during the spring months.

The speed limit in the lake is only 10 miles per hour and this limits boats and skiers away, keeping the smaller boat fishermen happy. If you are interested in fly fishing in tiny streams, then follow Prosser Creek in the spring until you arrive at Truckee. Prosser Campground also offers some great campsites. The sites and the hook ups are not far from a launching ramp that is rough but usable.

Boca fly and lure action from the shore is going to be best for waders that are on the point opposite of the Boca Rest as well as the Little Truckee River inlet. Troll the west side points as well as the large coves near the north end, where you will find excellent bait fishing especially early on in the season. Locals tend to do well in the late winter as well as the early spring, especially when it comes to fly fishing in the inlet cove using streamer patterns as well as during the fly hatch at Little Black Stone when using black nymphs as well as size 12 and 14 Stimulators.

Stampede

Stampede is a favorite reservoir in the Truckee area and offers some really nice shaded camp sites. Early during the spring, large trout end up clobbering 5-inch plugs and trolling flies that are worked along the shore. The most popular types of colors tend to fall into the gold, yellow and orange spectrum. The brown trout and rainbow trout offering here is generally around the 10 inch to 14 inch range.

Deep trolling worms and flashers using downriggers, wire line and lead core will last all summer long off of the points between the dam and the launch ramp. Bait fishermen are also going to do well here, especially with air injected worms. If the water in the reservoir drops as much as it typically does, then peeled crayfish tails are another favorite.

The best fishing in the early season is going to be in the northeast arm just past the dam turnoff. Just about 100 yards south of the junction between two small streams you will find a small outcrop of rocks. There is often a lot of floating wood here, so using worms beneath bobbers is generally a good way to go to keep you from snagging without preventing you from catching.

Two spots that are consistently great for trollers as well as shore anglers are the Saegehen Creek and the little Truckee River which are the two primary tributaries in this area. They can be accessed easily and concentrate plenty of large browns pre spawn, following the Kokanee who are spawning in the area so that they can feast on the eggs. You should be looking for this in the latter half of October or when the first snows are flying.

Some of the best Kokanee fishing in the Sierra area is found in the Stampede Reservoir area. The action early in the season is capable of being found by trolling the arms of the aforementioned tributaries. In this area during the summer months, the spot north of the island is going to hold a lot of fish as well. Trollers tend to get the best results from down riggers or lead core, getting spoons and dodgers around 30 to 45 feet below. The popular colors for spoons here tend to be purple and blue.

During the later half of the summer, large mature fish will school up around the dam, and jigging using heavy casting spoons and Buzz Bombs can work wonders at producing quick limits in this area if you can easily locate and drift right over these schools. You should be looking for tight groupings of different guide boats for a good indicator, especially in September around the dam.

Summer shore casting will peak early as well as late during the day. If you take a careful dawn approach to the bank areas you will be able to spot large cruising browns. Copper spoons work especially well for this purpose. Shore casters that are patient as well as trollers can fish using large minnow plugs to pick up some shore-cruising browns that are very large. This is especially great after plants from the Department of Fish and Game. If you countdown cast using copper spoons or silver spoons you will have more consistent results when it comes to the smaller trout.

Donner

As a result of being surrounded by cabins and roads, many fishermen skip Donner all together which is too bad because it is a winner in the winter when it comes to huge brown trout and Mackinaw. During the spring and the fall months it is great for Kokanee, browns and rainbows as well. Fishing is also relatively fair in the summertime, but only at dawn and dusk because otherwise there are too many skiers on the water.

Shore fishermen use salmon eggs and cheese to fish using the public ramp new the Donner Village Resort where there are stocked fish that are biting all throughout the summer and only a few feet away from parking. It is much more productive and more fun to toss black spoons and copper spoons off the bank, letting them sink for counts of 10 or 15 seconds before allowing them to be slowly retrieved.

There is plenty of public access and decent camping with plenty of room for fishing from the docks. The docks near the springs, those with overhanging bushes and those near small inlet streams are going to produce all throughout the summer but boats tend to be best when fishing at Donner. In the winter time, locals troll using large minnow plugs around 10 feet to 30 feet below water near the lake's north side, and they turn up plenty of browns and Mackinaw as a result. They find that along the west end, air injected worms tend to work best.

During the spring and the fall months, you should be trolling or casting plugs or spoons in search of rainbows and browns. You will also find still fish when you use air injected night crawlers or when you use Shasta sandwiches in order to catch trout in China Cove, which is dotted with boulders.

Fly fishermen find plenty of action in the shady areas of piers, especially near brush and along banks an even off smaller tributary streams as well. Size 16 Black Ants and size 14 Adams work well dry and size 12 Wooly Buggers or size 12 Hare's Ear Nymphs when fished wet also tend to work well during the summer months. Use bubbles with spin casters if you want to obtain solid results while fly fishing. A good plan for the summer will combine deep trolling for Mackinaw and Kokanee with shallow trolling for browns with fly fishing during the evening hours.

Martis Creek

This is a Wild Trout Lake that is tidy and quite large at 700 acres, and it can be found near the Truckee Airport. It will be your best chance for catching rainbows that are two feet in length and gorgeous browns, at least as far as California fishing is concerned. This is a catch and release lake using single barbless hooks and artificial lures during the stream season, so make sure that you check with the regulations from the Department of Fish and Game.

The best shore fishing in the early season is going to be off of what is known as the long spit, which is midway down through the reservoir near the Sierra View Campgrounds. You can take advantage of 270 degrees of casting from the tip of the point in order to catch plenty of cruising trout. During the summer, you should be fishing in the cool water of the inlet to the creek. The inlet is also going to produce when the lake seems to be slow otherwise. There are cool water springs that are located on the lake's eastern side where dry stream beds are.

You should be fishing with a spinner or a spoon, nipping off two hooks on your trebles and pinching down your barbs in order to meet the regulations for the area. Cast in a fan so that you can cover the entire bank using a countdown system. At times, large lures and large flies will be needed here. The smaller, more active trout tend to beat the big fish to the smaller spinners and spoons, but smaller lures will definitely catch you more fish in the long run.

Fly fishermen tend to do particularly well when keying to the blood midge. This is an abundant bug that hatches all through the season on a fairly regular basis. It tends to be best imitated using a size 12 or size 16 Blood Midge Pupa, and there are two different patterns that you can choose from to this effect, a buzzer style and a palomino style. The third pattern style to choose from is the Emerger style which hands with a trailing shuck. Fish this pupa down below the surface, aiming for the weed bed edges for the best results.

Release your trout with a minimum amount of handling. If they are not as frisky following the fight, pump them gently back and forth in the water to move the water through their gills to get them going. Take care not to use ultra light tackle because trout stress easily when it comes to long fights.

Photo Credits: angela7dreams,

Originally posted 2009-09-17 03:38:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Upper -

This is a popular section of the Truckee, but you can still catch some big browns here with some patience and perseverance. Just make sure that you are fishing early in the day and late in the day and avoiding the main road. Action begins below the Fanny Bridge closed section. There may be a lot of summer rafters down stream a bit near River Ranch but the trout do not seem bothered as they simply rise up between the rafts. Still, fishing tends to be best before nine and after 3 which is when there is shade in the deep canyon area.

During the spring and the fall you should try to fly fish in the pools and the riffles in search of rainbows and browns using size 14 and size 18 caddis lures, such as Elk Hair and Yellow Sally, as well as Mayfly Imitations, including Pale Morning Duns and Adams. For bigger fish, go for Joe's Hoppers, Muddler minnows and Little Brown Trout Streamers in both size 8 and 10. The Truckee river tends to be about 65 percent Caddis with 20 percent Mayfly, and the rest of the hatches are mixed.

Downstream from the River Ranch you will find good fishing between Donner Creek and Squaw Valley. Expect plenty of planters near to the camp grounds and the road access points. Look for larger fish in the deeper waters, and look for good fishing around the east side of this river. Use lures early on in the season and flies later in the season. Salmon eggs, tiny dark spinners, flies, fish with stump grubs and crayfish are all good in the late half of the spring and the early summer.

Lower -

Special regulation waters tend to begin at Trout Creek where it enters into the Truckee, which is just about a mile below the bridge for Highway 267. The first section is going to extend to the Glenshire bridge which is where the best access can be obtained by way of several dirt roads off of Glenshire Road. You should make sure to check out current regulations before you visit here. Between the first I-80 bridge and Glenshire bridge, below the Truckee, you will find what is known as the Flycaster's Club, private property. If you are rafting and floating through that area, you cannot do any wading or anchoring, where as the only permitted method of fishing is fly casting in this particular area.

There are productive waters for big fish that extend down the stream past the Boca Bridge, which is where you can find plenty of parking near the I-80 Bridge. Only the toughest waders are going to be able to brave the whitewater here in order to cover pockets that are behind the mainstream boulders in the area. There is a big pool upstream from the Boca Bridge that is significantly easier for most people to fish, and it is often well stocked though only very rarely will produce a large trout.

About a mile further downstream is going to provide you with superb holes, plenty of fair wading and 4WD drive in access assuming that the railroad north bank dirt road is currently open. Access for the next 300 yards or so is a little more tough because there is private property, willows along the railroad bank and water that is too deep for many people to wade in comfortably. For this reason, using bait or using floating plugs that are drifted downstream is pretty much a serious must.

The next bridge further downstream is going to be reached the easiest from I-80 through Hirshdale. Avoid the first four holes along a dirt road. Keep in mind that conditions here can vary rather significantly depending on the weather and calling ahead may be a good idea to pursue.

The best fishing that you will find along the entire Truckee River is going to begin just below the automotive junkyard, which is where the river is going to swing away from the railroad and will end up at the green railroad bridge. Fish the holes here but do not skip the pocket water if you are wading. Most of the experts here will wade in the middle of the river, fishing the undercuts and the beaver runs on both of the banks for good results.

Photo Credits: morgan.holmgren

Originally posted 2009-09-15 03:25:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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