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Clear Lake
 Clear Lake is at an elevation of 1,320 feet. It has 43,000 surface acres and 100 miles of shoreline. The lake is surrounded by resorts, many which have marinas and launch ramps.
There are also 11 free public ramps around the lake. Complete services are available in the city of Lakeport.
Clear Lake is California's largest natural lake. It's a shallow body of water with many grassy flats, brush covered banks and abundant tule growth. Much of it's shore is lined with privately-owned resorts, residences and boat docks. During seasonal weather fronts winds can create 3' to 4' waves in the open areas of the lake.
Clear Lake State Park offers camping with good launch and parking facilities.(707)279-4293
For more information contact the Lake County Visitors Information Center at 800-LAKESIDE or (707)263-9544.
Quagga Mussel Inspection Application Here is the application that you can have pre-filled before going to Clearlake, so that you can speed your inspection process
Lake Amenities Interested in locating a marina, tackle store, restaurant or lodging at a particular lake? Check here for featured locations.
| Name: allen |
Date: 2009-11-16 |
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Location: elk grove |
E-Mail: abarba_1986@yahoo.com |
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Water Clarity: 1 |
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Report: can someone please help me, i want to fish clear lake for crappie and i really only fished the place for bass. but i have no clue when the crappie will start biting. can someone please help me out? |
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| Name: kam |
Date: 2009-11-14 |
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Location: Lower Lake |
E-Mail: kamaflauje@yahoo.com |
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Water Clarity: 1 |
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Report: Fished off of my neighbors dock for the past few evenings,swimbaits have been killin!I stuck my first stacy90 fish today! it was a nice chunk.Pretty excited about winter fishing! |
Tips: The fish are wolf-packin for sure,once you get bit,camp out for a while and try different things |
| Name: Larry Hemphill |
Date: 2009-11-12 |
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Location: Yuba City |
E-Mail: lunkerlarry@comcast.net |
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Water Teamp: 58 |
Water Clarity: 2 |
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Report: I think I had more fun last night than I deserved! I had three great clients from the eastern U.S. - enjoying Clear Lake for the first time! We fish from 4 to midnight - dealing with a slower bite and lots of wind. Two of them owned Rangers and were experienced bass guys. The other one had not bass fished that much and sat in the back seat! Guess who caught the first 2 or 3 and really had the most bites - that's right - the back seater!! The other two took over my Ranger - worked the trolling motor - tied their baits - and joked around the whole time! All I had to do was point out the spots, work the black lights - and eat!!! I only made about 15 cast with a swim jig - no bites. They wound up with a pretty even trip - all of them catching 5, give or take a few. They boated 15 total bass with a nice "best 5" at 23 1/4 lbs. The highlight was my "double" net job of a 6.13 and a 4.08. Both of the front guys double hookup arrived at the net at the same time - so - into the salmon net they both went, one after the other Does that count as a "10"?!!!! We fished from Henderson Point down to Rattlesnake Island. |
Tips: Our timing was pretty good as there was no rain and the cold front hadn't settled in yet. They really did well in some rough water as the bass wern't very aggressive. While their "limit" was very good, they did catch a lot of smaller 2 1/2 lb bass. Saw very few of those smaller bass in the previous 2 trips. I had them using only plastics (4 people in the boat - my rule), and the 10" Power worm was the big winner - it worked very well and produced 3 or 4 or their bigger fish. Brush hogs were good along with Yamamoto Kreature baits. Bass seemed to be more shallow last night with the rough water - some on the bank. They couldn't get those 25-35 foot fish to bite. Fish were really scattered - had to fish a lot of spots for their 15 fish. |
View All Reports| Name: Rich Jacobsen |
E-Mail: fishnrich@msn.com |
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date 10-18-04 water dirty brown
launched at redbud boated to jaygo bay to the back side. Started cranking with a bill norman
crank in red. First,five fish in this area the best fish of the day was the first fish 4.02
with to threes to go with that fish. Boated to rattlesnake island cranked two more fish both about 2/1/2 lbs started to get windy boated back to the main body and fish boat docks. Caught lots of fish on a ox blood colored worm fish texas rigged on the shaded side of docks. most of those fish were about 12" fish but lots of fun. fished a sea wall that blocked the sun and made a long shade line in the water about 4ft wide. Caught 8 fish in about 15 min. all about 2lbs. good day on the water caught 19 fish off the water at 2:00 goodday at the lake.
I'm from Redding and it may take you a year to catch two 3lbers in the same day. at clearlake its no big deal a local said with a smile,he pulled out two 6lbers out of his livewell. Asked me to take his picture I did and he let the fish go. wow what fun back again soon.
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| Name: steve |
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