Fishing for catfish in California is a simple pleasure that results in delicious eating. While they are almost everywhere, these lakes and rivers offer the very best catfishing.
Crappie are fun to catch, tasty to each and found all over California. We show you the best fishing lakes and rivers, along with tips to help you catch a bucketful of slab crappies.
Lake Skinner is smaller and quieter than several Riverside County reservoirs, but it comes up big for fishing with good numbers of stripers, largemouth bass, trout and channel catfish.
Silverwood Lake is a hot spot for striped bass and offers some very good fishing for trout, largemouth bass and other game fish. We’ll show you how, where and when to catch them.
As a fishing hole, New Melones Lake almost has it all. It’s a big reservoir where you can catch plenty of bass and trout, as well as kokanee, catfish and crappie. We show you how.