Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3716 July 20- Aug 3 | Page 19
To Kirkwood, Carson Pass,
Markleeville & Lake Tahoe
Lower Bear River Reservoir
El Dorado National Forest
Amador County
Cabin Rentals: Bear River Campground has seven
lodging units, each having accommodations for four
occupants. Each unit has a separate bedroom. All units
have a day bed in the living room. Linens and blankets
for four occupants are provided. All the units have full
baths – towels are provided. Kitchens contain stoves,
microwave ovens, refrigerators, cooking utensils and
service setting for four.
Boat Rentals & Marina Facilities: Bear River Lake
Resort rents fishing boats with gas motors, canoes,
paddle boats and kayaks. Marina slips are available. The
boat launch fee is $10.00. Marina gas hours are from 8
am to 4:30 pm. Contact the Bear River Resort at 40800
Highway 88, Pioneer, CA. 95666, bearrivercampground@
gmail.com, www.bearrivercampground.com, Tel. 209-
295-4868 or Fax 209-295-4585.
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Bear River Resort features: 130 developed camp-
sites. Amenities include power, water picnic tables, fire
pits, flushable toilets in the bathrooms, showers dump
station on site (for RV’s to dump waste), ice machine,
Laundromat, video arcade, gas sold on site, playground,
telephones, full store and a full Bar and restaurant.
Camping: There are two nearby developed U.S. Forest
Service campsites at South Shore Campground and
Bear River Group Campgound. South Shore Camp-
ground has 22 units and is first come, first served; Bear
River Group Campground has 3 sites that may accom-
modate 25-50 people. For reservations at the group
campground call Sierra Recreation Managers at (209)
295-4512. Fees are charged at both campgrounds. There
is piped water, picnic tables, toilets, grills, and fire-rings,
but no hook-ups. Open May 15 – Oct. 15, depending on
snow.
Directions: From Jackson go 40 miles east on High-
way 88 and turn right onto Bear River Reservoir Road for
2 miles.
Size and Location: The 727 acre reservoir is located at
an elevation of 5,850 feet in El Dorado National Forest 42
miles east of Jackson.
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• Rainbow Trout are taken throughout the season. Bank anglers find the top action using
PowerBait, Pautzke Fire Bait and nightcrawlers in the launch ramp cove. Trollers catch lots of
rainbows with nightcrawlers behind flashers and dodgers. Needlefish, Cripplures, Hum Dingers,
Dick Nites, Sparklefish, Wedding Rings and Kastmasters are among the most effective lures.
• German Brown Trout - are caught on the lake from ice-out in the spring to the first snows in late
fall. Bank anglers find success tossing Rapalas, Rebels or mealworms under water-filled bobbers
near the dam and in the coves. Trollers top-line along the shoreline with minnow imitation lures.
• Mackinaw trout - action is best in the spring and fall. Troll from 25 to 65 feet deep with Kwiktish,
Flatfish, J-Plugs and other proven mackinaw enticers on the lake's south end.
While fishing and camping at Lower Bear River Reservoir, you can make side trips to Silver,
Caples, Red and other great trout lakes along the Carson Pass Highway, as well as the many
productive streams in the region.
ent along its shoreline. This allows shore
power drawdowns during the winter.
rainbow trout in the 14 -15-inch
anglers
access
to
deep
water
for
fishing.
Immediately above—and in high
length-class were, on average,
Being able to fish this deeper water from
water separated only by the upper dam—
12.5 times more likely to be
shore means boat anglers are not the only
is the smaller Bear River Reservoir that
caught by sport anglers than
ones able to fish greater depths. “
is often referred to as Upper Bear River
those in the smallest individ-
“Only
four
browns
have
been
reported
Reservoir.
ual length-class (8 – 9 inch),”
caught
in
five
years’
of
surveys.
The
last
Slightly over a mile long, Upper Bear
wrote Ewing. “Anglers may not
stocking
of
15,000
fingerling-size
BN
contains
166 surface acres and about 2.5
be catching as many hatchery
in
2012
does
not
appear
to
be
success-
miles
of
shoreline
surrounded by private,
rainbows due to the presence
ful
from
the
data
collected,”
explained
water
management
lands. The only boat-
of large, predatory brown trout
Ewing. For more information, go to:
ing access is for hardy anglers willing to
and lake trout in Lower Bear.
https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/documents/Con-
portage small craft around and to the top
CDFW staff will likely move to
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of its dam.
a trophy-trout fishery (1 lb. and
The
Bear
River
Resort
is
usually
open
For mor