Collins Lake Report

Kathy Hess of Collins Lake in the Sierra Nevada foothills filed this report:

Today, Collins Lake received 1,800 pounds of trout in our first private plant of this year. In this plant half the load is considered trophy-sized fish, while the other half of the fish are considered catchables. Next week we are on (California Department of Fish and Wildlife) schedule for a plant from them, then the following week (before President’s Weekend) we will get another 1,800 pounds of private stock! The weather has been so warm, perfect for camping as well as fishing so we chose to jump into our annual trout-stocking program a little earlier than normal.

This week produced another couple of 5-pound trout. The first was caught by Hilario Sandoval from Vacaville, and he used an orange/white PowerBait and hooked his from the shore in the campground.

Michael McGahan caught his limit of trout and his biggest weighed 5 pounds. Mike was trolling with Rapalas like he always does!

Paul and Dell Parker from Lincoln hooked onto a nice 3-pound, 12-ounce rainbow trout while fishing from the beach using a nightcrawler.

Two funny guys named “The Grease and “The Angel” fished off the beach as well using orange PowerBait and took home a nice stringer of trout (their biggest was 3 pounds, 8 ounces).

Scott Edwards sent in a great photo of his trout catch from the beach and he used green PowerBait; his scale weighed it in at approximately 4½ pounds.

The Riewold and Vincent families fished the east bank using red PowerBait and netted a total of eight trout and they had a nice lunker that weighed 4 pounds.

Ian and Gregory (see photo at top) came up for the day to fish near the marina and caught a really good-looking trout using orange PowerBait.

For more on Collins Lake, located northeast of Sacramento between Grass Valley and Marysville, call (800) 286-0576 or go to collinslake.com.