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Camanche offers great populations of largemouth and spotted bass, as well as rainbow trout, channel catfish, crappie and bluegill for
anglers to pursue.
Photo by ALBERT BERENDS, Granite Bay.
Lake Camanche Bass Fishing Great for Numbers & Size
Y
ou can enjoy both numbers and
size when it comes to fishing for
black bass on Lake Camanche. Just
ask Albert Berends, former Fish Sniff-
er staffer and avid bass angler, who
reported the trip of a lifetime on the East
Bay Municipal Utility District reservoir,
located on the Mokelumne River in the
rolling Mother Lode foothills
east of Lodi.
On Wednesday,
February 7,
Berends and
his fishing
buddy
Wayne
O’Hal-
loran of
Rocklin decided to go to Camanche after
a previous trip to New Melones Reser-
voir, where they had caught a lot of bass
while vertically jigging.
To say the fishing started off slow at
Camanche was an understatement. “We
fished all morning until noon with no
action,” said Berends. “We looked at one
point and it appeared like it was worth
fishing. We looked on the fish
finder and the fish were load-
ed from 30 to 50 feet deep
l