Fishing near Fresno, CA
Set in the heart of Fresno County's San Joaquin Valley, Fresno puts anglers within about an hour of strikingly varied water — warm foothill reservoirs, stocked Sierra mountain lakes, and designated Wild Trout streams. Millerton Lake on the San Joaquin River and Pine Flat Lake on the Kings River anchor the local scene, with the upper Kings River rated among California's finest wild rainbow trout fisheries.
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Alabama Bass
Micropterus henshalli
American Shad
Black Bullhead
Ameiurus melas
Black Crappie
Pomoxis nigromaculatus
Bluegill
Lepomis macrochirus
Bluegill Sunfish
Lepomis macrochirus
Brook Trout
Salvelinus fontinalis
Brown Trout
Salmo trutta
Channel Catfish
Ictalurus punctatus
Chinook Salmon
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Common Carp
Cyprinus carpio
Golden Trout
Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita
Grass Carp
Ctenopharyngodon idella
Green Sunfish
Lepomis cyanellus
Largemouth Bass
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