Fishing near El Portal, CA
El Portal sits at roughly 2,000 feet elevation in Mariposa County, just outside the Arch Rock Entrance to Yosemite National Park. The Merced River is the defining water here — a boulder-strewn, canyon-carved river known for rainbow and brown trout, drawing fly anglers and spin fishers year-round.
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Bluegill
Lepomis macrochirus
Brook Trout
Salvelinus fontinalis
Brown Bullhead
Ameiurus nebulosus
Brown Trout
Salmo trutta
Chinook Salmon
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Common Carp
Cyprinus carpio
Cutthroat Trout
Oncorhynchus clarkii seleniris (Paiute), O. c. clarkii (Coastal), O. c. henshawi (Lahontan)
Green Sunfish
Lepomis cyanellus
Rainbow Trout
Oncorhynchus mykiss
Sacramento Pikeminnow
Ptychocheilus grandis
Smallmouth Bass
Steelhead
Oncorhynchus mykiss
Western Mosquitofish
Gambusia affinis
Spotted Bass
Micropterus punctulatus and Micropterus henshalli
Alabama Bass
Micropterus henshalli
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