2023 Huntington Lake Fishing Map and Report, and How to Fish Huntington Lake and Fresno Hunting Clubs
Huntington Lake
Reservoir
Huntington Lake is a reservoir iocated in the Sierra Nevada at an elevation of over 6000 feet. Water is diverted by underground tunnels to the Powerhouse, which discharges into Shaver Lake.
Depth: 128.00 ftSurface area: 2.2 miles
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Huntington Lake Quick Fishing Information
Location: Huntington
Lake is located on the west slope of the Sierra off Highway 168.
Species: Rainbow
trout, brown trout, kokanee.
Facilities: Huntington Lake Resort has cabins,
rental boats and motors, canoes, a restaurant, marina and bait and tackle shop.
Cedar Crest Resort has cottages, RV spaces water and electricity, tent spaces,
boat rentals for guests, grocery stores and a gourmet restaurant. These and
other facilities on the lake book well in advance, so make reservations early,
especially for the months of July and August.
Boating: Boaters can launch at Rancheria Marina or Huntington Lake Resort at the west end of the lake. Camping: The Forest Sen/ice maintains several
campgrounds around the lake. Rancheria
and Deer Creek, located right on the lake, are the best.
Tackle and
information: The Red Barn, located right
on Highway 168 in Shaver Lake, keeps
track of fishing at Huntington and
Shaver, and has a good supply of tackle,
camping supplies and hardware.
HUNTINGTON LAKE
Situated in dense Sierra timber, Huntington Lake offers great trout fishing in one of the most scenic spots you’re likely to set eyes on. Huntington
is a snow-fed lake full of clean, pure water from the mountains. The water is
cold year-round, which makes this an unpopular lake with swimmers and skiers,
and very popular with fishermen!
All that cold water contributes to a very healthy trout
population. Huntington has large numbers of both rainbows and browns, as well
as a significant kokanee fishery. Some of
the regulars at Huntington say Huntington is the one place where you can count
on getting a limit of trout, even if just fishing from the bank.
After years of drought, this year's snowpack should restore the lake to its eminence. Hallelujah!
Fishing’s usually best in June and September, with the best brown trout action in the early fall. May and June are two of your best fishing
months up here. At dawn, use a bobber 3 feet
above the worm.
Later in the day,
you usually have to re-rig everything,
and use a marshmallow to float the worm off the bottom.
There’s definitely a consensus that says trollers should work close to the shoreline
on the north shore of the lake between
Lakeshore and Will ’o the ‘Wisp. Down by
the dam is generally the best bet, and specifically at Dam No. 1, because that's the deepest part of the lake. That’s
where most of the big browns are caught
too.
There’s yet
another consensus that nightcrawlers are
just about unbeatable at this lake.
So, you're out of nightcrawlers, as the best bait up
here, then salmon eggs and redworms
are next in line. Part of the reason
nightcrawlers are so effective is because
there are so many major streams running into those lakes. Line Creek, Home Camp Creek, Rancheria Creek,
Deer Creek and other streams all wash worms into the lake, and trout congregate
at stream mouths to find an easy dinner.
Another reason nightcrawlers are so effective is
because they’re equally attractive to
both native and hatchery trout.
Huntington has a lot of both. Salmon eggs may draw more hatchery fish than natives because they more
closely resemble the pellets trout are fed at the hatchery. Nightcrawlers are best fiy-lined with a small
split shot or drifted from a boat, but
when fish move into deeper water, fishing
them on the bottom under a sliding sinker is effective bottom — or you can blow
the worm up.
One of the great things about this lake is the amount
of bank access. Virtually the entire
shoreline is open to bank fishing, and there are lots of productive areas. All the
creek inlets are worth a try, especially
those on the north shoreline. Rancheria
is another consistently productive spot.
Trolling is also extremely effective, Rainbows are averaging 12 to 16 inches, the
bite’s best in the early mornings and just before the sun goes down. Trollers
like to pull hardware “anything gold" is hot although the majority of fishermen
use nightcrawlers.
A variety of other spinners are popular fodder for rainbows,
Rapalas are the top teaser for the browns. Anglers looking to bag a trophy
brown might also consider fishing flies. The old-timers talk about going out
between 7 and 10 when the lake is calm and fly fishing. One veteran angler who
fishes huge black Woolly Buggers on a size 4 hook for browns!
The lake is comes up in the Spring 2 to 3 feet a week, and
trout will likely be feeding in
newly-flooded channels. While
there are the typical 8-inch hatchery trout at Huntington, there are also some
very non-typical holdover rainbows and browns as well as some brood-stock trout
stocked by the DFG.
Last year a lot of
fish in the 4- to 9-pound were hauled out
here. The best eating fish in the lake
are the smaller brown and native rainbows and the hatchery trout that have been
in the lake at least a year. Thanks to a rich diet and lots of cold water, hatchery
trout firm up fast, and sometimes you’ll even find rainbow with pink meat
.
Stream fishing is very popular around Huntington, although most
are so small that it can be tough to fish flies.
Gibson said fishing is usually best for those who float a cricket, a grub
or salmon eggs in the streams.
Home Creek, Rancheria Creek and Line Creek are the most
popular with fly fishermen. All are pretty small, so they can be tough to fish,
but all have good concentrations of native fish eager to take naturally-presented
patterns. Try caddis, California Mosquitos, Black Gnats, Woolly Worms and
Woolly Buggers.
As for Kokanee at
Huntington, the lake sources say they use Cow Bells and kokanee rigs and troll deep
for the kokanee. There are a few anglers
that even use leaded line. The
dam is generally the hot spot, because kokes like the deeper water.
One thing you should definitely plan for at Huntington is wind. There
is a wind that comes up here every day at about 10:30 in the morning, and it
dies down about 5:30 every night.
Because of the midday
wind, fishing is usually best from 6 to 9:30 a.m. and again from 6 to 8
p.m.
Remember us when you haul in that huge trout!
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