Eagle Lake Fishing Regulations
FISHING SEASON OPENS MAY 28, 2011
California Fishing Regulations for Eagle Lake's fishing season is the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend to December 31. Period.

ALL TRIBUTARIES TO THE LAKE OPEN FOR FISHING ON THE SATURDAY OF MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND.  NO FISHING IS ALLOWED IN PINE CREEK BELOW HIGHWAY 44 TO THE MOUTH OF PINE CREEK ON EAGLE LAKE.  NO FISHING INSIDE THE BREAKWATER JETTY AT THE EAGLE LAKE MARINA.  NO FISHING IN PINE CREEK SLOUGH BETWEEN THE EGG COLLECTION FACILITY AND THE LAKE.
 
FISHING LICENSES: The new style of fishing licenses will be available up north at Mariners Resort and Eagle Lake RV Park in Spalding (checking on EL Marina this week,  but I would imagine they too will sell licenses). If you plan on coming up, be sure to have your license. It is easy to do online and your receipt from purchasing your license from CDFG website is also a temporary license with 14 days before expiration. I did purchase my license online this year and I had received the real license in the mail within 3 days. If youdon’t have a license and come up late or too early, you could be screwed unless you know someone with an internet connection and a printer who is willing to let you use their computer and printer at 4 AM before you head out on the water. If you are stuck after having arrived late the evening before your fishing trip, ask your guide (or friend) if he/she can do it for you. The stores don’t open until the fish stop biting in the morning. So best to be prepared before you get here. Mariners Resort & EL RV Park can print your official license…a friend can only print your receipt…which is a legal copy until you receive your actual license from CDFG in the mail.   
 
2 ROD STAMP USE: It is legal for a child under the age of 16 to fish with two rods however, the child has to be there manning his rods not out playing leaving the rods in mom and dad’s care or observation….mom and dad will get cited for fishing with too many rods and could lose their fishing licenses while the kid is off playing. Children and adults with a two rod stamp can fish with two rods until they keep their limit. The second rod must be removed from the water immediately once a limit is retained (I have learned how  and attempt it as best I can to reel in that second rod while fighting my last fish on the first…something to think about) Captain Lisa Stone (back in our neck of the woods and top dog of our local wardens)  also wants me to add that if by chance you do catch a fish on that second rod after  or while you are reeling in the last fish of your limit on the first rod & release the fish in a condition that it is not alive or will not survive it could be counted toward your limit and you could be cited for having an over-limit of fish. 
 
1) legal fishing time is “one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset”. Sunrise and sunset times are posted on  the Weather page.
 
2) Daily limit of two trout and one person can only have four in possession (for two days of fishing). If you have retained your possession you cannot go out and keep two more trout on the third fishing day as that would be over-possession unless you have consumed your first limit.  Canned and/or smoked trout DO count towards your possession.  Also, transporting more fish than you have people in your vehicle isn't going to cut it.  Transporting fish for other people is not an option even if their names and license numbers are on the fish.
 
3) No minnows can be used as bait, including minnows caught in the lake itself.
 
4) No trout can be kept in a live condition in a live well.
 
5) As stated above: No fishing in Pine Creek below highway 44 and Pine Creek Slough to Eagle Lake. No fishing inside the jetty rocks at Eagle Lake Marina.  Signs may not be adequate but actually don’t even have to be there. It is posted in the CDFG Sport fishing Regulations so not seeing the signs is no excuse! Fred’s Road is closed to vehicular traffic on the north side of the slough.  However, Lassen National Forest has improved the access to the mouth of Pine Creek on the Spalding side just west of the marina.  The dirt road was improved, graveled and many turn outs installed.  The road leads to a parking area where the Y used to be.  The road going upstream from the Y is closed to vehicular traffic including the road to the egg collection facility via the Slough.  Not seeing the signs is not an excuse as you can not miss them. 
 
6) NO CHUMMING IS ALLOWED. That means no cans of corn or shrimp being dumped overboard, or anything else that would attract the fish.  Attractants are only allowed to be put on bait. 
 
7) Children under age 16 are allowed to fish with two poles.  Children must be able to do most of the job of fishing before their limit can be obtained.  This is not intended to discourage teaching your kid how to fish, but for example we all know that a toddler is not capable of reeling in a fish and doing most of the work by him or herself, the toddlers limit cannot be taken.  CDFG wardens know that parents have to teach their kids how to do it but the kid has to be old enough to be making some effort too.  IE learning to cast. I have seen kids as young as 4 do a very good job of following verbal instructions.  Generally only needing help holding the rod up after several minutes of fighting the fish.  Baiting up usually around 9, casting around 7 years old.  But, it all depends on how much the kids get to fish over how old they are.  Also, check the regulations for the second rod stamp.
 
Also, when shore fishing with the kids, be sure they are not off playing rather than paying attention to their rods.  Parents can get cited for fishing with too many rods if the kids are not within close proximity to their rods. 

We still have full staffing of CDFG Wardens this season, we did not take a bad hit with the state budget. They know we have problems with some folks fishing illegally and thinking no one is watching. We have news for you, you are being watched, uniformed and undercover folks, don't be stupid!!! 
 
Fines can be in the hundreds of dollars. Over possession fines can cost you thousands of dollars.  The local fishing community supports ALL the efforts of CDFG Wardens, and many of us can reach them instantly. The best thing to do is simply not violate the regulations!!
 
The lake is closed to fishing from January to opening day on Memorial Day Weekend.  But the lake is not closed to walks, snowshoeing, cross county skiing or snow mobiling.  Just don't have any fishing equipment with you as others may be out watching.  Poaching has been a problem in the past and CDFG isn't too far away.

 

 

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