The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

The map of Lake Almanor for the 2105 relicensing had all of the LMB and SMB spawning bed locations marked.( thanks PG&E) It would be a real good idea to drag those 20lb books out and fish the nearest dropoff to the spawning areas. The big fat mommas will stage in ambush points near the beds, while the smaller males will post up on the beds. 2 years ago I kicked my floattube around one of those bays near the Prattville intakes... lots of grabby males... I was a week or two too early for the females and never got back up there to punish them some more. Black Clouser's with a rabbit strip tail tied into the fly on a floating line or crayfish imitations work real good. I bet the flats at Mountain Meadows will have spawners earlier than Almanor.

Hint- Thermalito Afterbay already has LMB sitting on beds from the last full moon and you can wade some of the shoreline there without too much trouble.