Fishing near Porterville, CA

Porterville sits in the Tulare County foothills where the Sierra Nevada meets the San Joaquin Valley, giving anglers a fishery corridor that runs from warmwater reservoirs to mountain tailwaters. The marquee draw is Lake Success, a 2,450-acre Army Corps reservoir 8 miles east on Hwy 190, once named among the country's top largemouth bass lakes. The Tule River and Kern River watersheds add trout water within an hour's drive.

Top waters to fish near Porterville

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Black Bullhead

Ameiurus melas

Black Crappie

Pomoxis nigromaculatus

Bluegill

Lepomis macrochirus

Bluegill Sunfish

Lepomis macrochirus

Brown Bullhead

Ameiurus nebulosus

Channel Catfish

Ictalurus punctatus

Chinook Salmon

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Common Carp

Cyprinus carpio

Golden Trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita

Green Sunfish

Lepomis cyanellus

Largemouth Bass

Rainbow Trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Redear Sunfish

Lepomis microlophus

Sacramento Pikeminnow

Ptychocheilus grandis

Smallmouth Bass

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