Fishing near Chester, CA

Chester sits in Plumas County in Northern California's Sierra Nevada, at the edge of the Lake Almanor Basin. The area is best known for Lake Almanor, a large reservoir at 4,505 feet elevation that draws anglers for German brown trout, rainbow trout, largemouth and smallmouth bass, and landlocked salmon. Nearby Butt Lake adds more trout, kokanee, and Mackinaw fishing to the mix, and several streams in the basin round out the options for fly and spin anglers alike.

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Bluegill

Lepomis macrochirus

Brook Trout

Salvelinus fontinalis

Brown Bullhead

Ameiurus nebulosus

Brown Trout

Salmo trutta

Channel Catfish

Ictalurus punctatus

Common Carp

Cyprinus carpio

Green Sunfish

Lepomis cyanellus

Kokanee Salmon

Oncorhynchus nerka

Largemouth Bass

Rainbow Trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Sacramento Pikeminnow

Ptychocheilus grandis

Smallmouth Bass

White Sturgeon

Acipenser transmontanus

Bluegill Sunfish

Lepomis macrochirus

Cutthroat Trout

Oncorhynchus clarkii seleniris (Paiute), O. c. clarkii (Coastal), O. c. henshawi (Lahontan)

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