Fishout Site: 

Sly Park / Jenkinson Lake

Fishout Date:

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Fees: $6 - 8 Vehicle fee;

$5 non-CF boat fee

Fishout Leader:

Gene Goss

Phone: 916-962-7375

Email: eugenesusan@aol.com

Meeting Time:

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Meeting Location: Chimney Camp day picnic parking lot

Max. # Attendees:  N/A

Directions:

Take highway 50 east to the second exit for Pollock Pines, turn right on to Sly Park Road for 5 miles, turn left into the park entrance across from the store, drive to the back of the park to Chimney Camp day picnic parking lot

Map: www.mapquest.com

Website:

http://www.eid.org/recreation/sly_park/sly_activities_facilitites.htm               http://www.eid.org/recreation/sly_park/sly_fees.htm

Fish:

Mackinaw & Brown Trout Small & Large-mouth Bass

Bluegill

Fishing strategy:

Float tube

Pontoon boat

Stillwater

Tackle:

Rod Wt(s)

6 weight

Line

Clear or Camo Intermediate

Leader

10 ft.

Tippet

8 lb.

Other

Flies:

Patterns:

Size 4 - 6 Wolly Bugger, Streamers, Leeches

Other gear:

Wading staff

Waders

Wading Boots

Float Tube

Pontoon Boat

Anchor

Personal Flotation Device

Polarized sunglasses

Fins

Jenkinson Lake is located on Sly Park Creek, a tributary of the North Fork of the Cosumnes River. Jenkinson Lake is a 640-acre lake at 3500 feet elevation in the Sly Park Recreation Area of El Dorado County, and is the lowest elevation reservoir in California to hold a viable population of mackinaw with fish up to 18 pounds. The lake also has a decent population of brown trout; the lake record for a brown trout is 21 pounds. The lake is stocked with catchable rainbow trout from the late winter to early spring. Most of the planted trout are 12-14 inches with some holdovers 2-3 pounds. Smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, and bluegill are found in Jenkinson Lake, but smallmouth bass are the predominate species because the lake offers the rocky points, ledges and flats that smallmouth prefer. Every year I hook a couple of smallmouths between 17-19 inches, 4 to 5 pounds of hard fighting fish. A six-weight rod, clear or camo intermediate line will keep you into the fish this time of the year, 10 ft. leader with 8 lb tippet, a size 4-8 woolly bugger, streamers, leeches pattern. My favorite way to fish is to cast to the shoreline and rip a gold–olive streamer back, or slowly troll a leech in 10 ft. of water along the rocky points or rocky shoreline. A watercraft is the best way to fish this lake, something you can pick up and move to a new spot if fishing is slow in that spot, a float tube is best for this type of fishing where you can fish 3 or 4 places in a day.

Fishon Gene Goss (eugenesusan@aol.com) (916-962-7375)