Lake of The Pines Info??

Aceflare · Post by **Aceflare** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:17 pm

Is this a public lake? Are 2-stokes allowed?? how's the fishing, please advise.

ripbait · Post by **ripbait** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:00 am

Its a private lake you have to know someone to get on it

GW · Post by GW » Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:09 am

I have boat if someone has access.

I used to have a high school friend who's dad lived there. We fished it numerous times from shore but never by boat.

Would love to get out there for a day.

Cooch · Post by **Cooch** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 2:47 pm

a gated community that has NO access to the general public unless ya live there. You can't take your boat through the gate unless yer a property owner. My grand parents first purchased property here in 1963 and built the first lakeside home on the south east shore. I was introduced to bass fishing on this pond when I was 12 years old by my grandfather. It is a ery small lake of not much more than 180 acres, but in my mind, is one of the hidden jewels in the state of California, and is also one of the few lakes we have left that are loaded with monster pure Northern strain largemouth. 2-4 pound fish are abundant here, and there are many, many fish in that 6-11 pound range.

It's a fairly shallow impoundment with an average depth of 10 feet, the coves are shallow around 6 feet and most of the main lake is about 16-20 with a deep hole down at the damn to 45 feet. Docks pepper the lake side, prime habitat for the fish here. There's two major rock piles, consisting of boulders, some the size of an 18 foot bass boat and maybe 6-7 feet tall. The lake is inundated with three kinds of grass, elodia(coontail like), a tall stranded grass and the pepper grass that looks like Eucalyptus leaves on thin strands that mat on the surface in the summer in many of the coves(great froggin and Minner spoons). Five small feeder creeks flow into the lake, all of which are like magnets to the bass year round. Only one flows all year, that coming down from the minning facility above near Colfax, it's the one that ran into our cove and just attracks more bass than one can imagine. Like a smorgousbob, the fish move in there all day and night ta feed.

Primary forage of the lake is an abundance of craws and blue gill. A lot of frogs too as well as the variety of minners coming down the cricks. Baby ducks and geese are prime targets in the early spring.

Best baits have always been a brown jig with a purple grub, and any 4-6 inch piece of black blue plastics. Sometimes the watermelon red git's hot, as does purples like MMIII.

Too bad I sold it, now I'm stuck with a new house on Sandmond Blvd. Oh what a shame! HAR!

ttb31183 · Post by **ttb31183** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:24 pm

Are these the same thing? The lake that is described sounds alot like a private gated community lake that I have fished numerous times near Groveland, CA. It is called Pine Mountain Lake. Full of 8+lb fish.

Cooch · Post by **Cooch** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 8:27 pm

there was a company that developed a series of these gated community lakes, LOP is in Auburn, there's another one off H20 outside of Grass Valley, and a third one I know of between MiddleTown and ClearLake. I've heard of Pine Mountain and I'm sure there are more, Estrada from Chips has been doing an infomercial for a couple down south as well over the years.

GW · Post by GW » Sun Jul 10, 2005 9:41 pm

Lake Wildwood is the other community outside Grass Valley that I think Cooch is refeering to. I grew up in the Grass Valley area and fished it quite a few times. However most times we fished it for Trout....that was before I knew better!
I am not sure about access here anymore its been to long since i have been back. I do remember you could get public access in one spot along the road so you may be able to get on there in a canoe or float tube??