It’s time for me to pack my decaying tackle box, clean my rod and reel, stuff my weathered copy of Huck Finn in my backpack and take off for a couple days of fishing at my favorite trout spot, Lake Fuller up in Nevada County, near Grass Valley, california.
I come from a long line of trout fishermen and I really wish my antecedents had lived long enough to go to Fuller with me.
Lake Fuller hass everything I love in a trout infested body of water. First it's idyllic, somewhat easy to access, and I've never had to engage in bloody nose combat fishing there.
You don't need to be a bug expert to successfully fish Fuller. The noon hatch is a great time to tie your favorite caddis fly on a 6x tippet leader and begin water whippin the leader well back from the water’s edge away from the shore. Fuller trout are ever watchful of hungry ospreys so it's a good idea to position yourself so your shadow isn’t flitting over the water,.
There are several places on fuller that produce limits. The first is about 50 feet upstream of the dam's face and a second is to the right of the dam face on the shore at the water’s edge.
In addition to rainbows that have chunkified over the winter, Fuller also has a population of California brown trout that can be enticed using larger flys or small gold spinners with number 12 hooks. All of Fullers resident brown trout are over-winter fish and it's not uncommon to see fishermen with 4-pounders in their creels., the best place to target brownies is to find where a feeder stream empties into the lake (just to the east of the campground at the head of the lake).
Although I'm a practitioner of the true faith (fly fishing) In moments of despair I have broken out the Pautzke’s salmon eggs, or my favorite bait for punk trout, chartreuse floating bait with sparkles.There i've admitted it, please don't hate me for fessing up to being an occasional bait fisherman.
So tomorrow, I load up my electron assisted hybrid kia for the trip up to Fuller.
Be like me, put your back into it,Jim, and catch trout at a premier Sierra fishery. Just make sure you paCK IN YOUR LUNCH SInce the closest lunch or dinner source is in Grass Valley 12 miles west on Highway 20.
Off for lip rippin fun --jim Forbes on May2, 2021.
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