Start with Callibaetis Nymph (12-16) on a slow figure-of-eight retrieve. Early in the day, try buzzers on a slow figure-of-eight or a booby on a fast-sink line near the bottom. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses.
Fish early and late, try deeper during the heat of the day with a fast-sinking line.
Evening tends to be the best period in summer — stay late if you can for a sedge or spinner fall.
Good ripple suits both bank and boat. Bank: work inflows, dam walls, and points. Boat: broadside drift covering wind lanes.
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
Conditions are away from Lake Davis's sweet spot — it usually fishes best in ripple wind with cloud skies.
Rich Sierra reservoir up by Portola, holding chunky wild rainbows that grow fat on a diet of blood midges and damsels. This is premier stillwater nymphing — a static blood midge fished over the weed beds under an indicator is the classic Davis method, and the trick is varying your depth until you find the band the fish are sitting in. Tube and boat water. Ice-off in spring and the autumn are the prime windows, with damsel and Callibaetis fishing through the summer.
EPA ATTAINS assessment unit 'Davis Lake (Plumas County)' (CAL5183401020020418135013), 2024 Integrated Report. Aquatic Life use: Insufficient Information. This is a Clean Water Act assessment-unit classification (the US analogue of WFD), not a live reading.
Status is for the Clean Water Act assessment unit covering this reach.
EPA ATTAINS (Clean Water Act) · CAL5183401020020418135013
Rich Sierra reservoir up by Portola, holding chunky wild rainbows that grow fat on a diet of blood midges and damsels.
Start with Callibaetis Nymph (12-16) on a slow figure-of-eight retrieve. Early in the day, try buzzers on a slow figure-of-eight or a booby on a fast-sink line near the bottom. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses.
Fish early and late, try deeper during the heat of the day with a fast-sinking line.
Evening tends to be the best period in summer — stay late if you can for a sedge or spinner fall.
Good ripple suits both bank and boat. Bank: work inflows, dam walls, and points. Boat: broadside drift covering wind lanes.
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
Conditions are away from Lake Davis's sweet spot — it usually fishes best in ripple wind with cloud skies.
Rich Sierra reservoir up by Portola, holding chunky wild rainbows that grow fat on a diet of blood midges and damsels. This is premier stillwater nymphing — a static blood midge fished over the weed beds under an indicator is the classic Davis method, and the trick is varying your depth until you find the band the fish are sitting in. Tube and boat water. Ice-off in spring and the autumn are the prime windows, with damsel and Callibaetis fishing through the summer.
EPA ATTAINS assessment unit 'Davis Lake (Plumas County)' (CAL5183401020020418135013), 2024 Integrated Report. Aquatic Life use: Insufficient Information. This is a Clean Water Act assessment-unit classification (the US analogue of WFD), not a live reading.
Status is for the Clean Water Act assessment unit covering this reach.
EPA ATTAINS (Clean Water Act) · CAL5183401020020418135013
