Baum Lake
Cassel, near Hat Creek · near Cassel · Shasta Cascade
Fishing
At a glance
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Best season
- Year-round (spring-fed, cold); best spring-early summer
Permits and booking
- Licence required
- Yes
- Licence detail
- CA license (16+). General trout regulations (typically a 5-trout limit - confirm current CDFW limit). Electric motors only, no gas motors. Open all year.
What is here
- Features
- Spring-fed, cold and clear year-round · Reliable stocked rainbows plus big holdover browns · A classic beginner and kids' fly lake · Feeds the famous Hat Creek Wild Trout water
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Allowed
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Fishing detail
- Water type
- lake
- Water
- fresh
- Methods
- Fly · Spin · Bait · Trolling
- Boat
- both
- Target species
- Rainbow trout (stocked & holdover) · Trophy brown trout
- Boat note
- Electric motors only - no gas.
- Intl tip
- The valley's easy, reliable trout lake - spring-fed and open year-round, great for families, beginners, and float tubes (electric motors only). Big holdover browns reward the patient. A perfect basecamp for the Hat Creek waters nearby.
The guide
Baum Lake is the friendly heart of the Hat Creek valley - a small, spring-fed impoundment near Cassel that stays cold and clear…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Baum Lake — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 40.92, -121.55