Collins Lake
Oregon House / Browns Valley (Yuba County) · near Oregon House · Gold Country & Central Valley
Fishing
At a glance
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Best season
- Late winter-spring (Feb-May) trophy plants; summer bass & catfish
Permits and booking
- Licence required
- Yes
- Licence detail
- CA license (16+). Privately run recreation area with day-use fee. Heavy stocking of large trout Nov-May; check for spring-derby tagging. Standard regs otherwise.
What is here
- Features
- Famous shore trophy-trout fishing · Big private rainbow plants Nov-May · Spring trout derby · Swim beach & camping - very family-friendly
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Allowed
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Fishing detail
- Nickname
- The Family Trophy-Trout Lake
- Water type
- lake
- Water
- fresh
- Methods
- Bait · Spin · Trolling
- Boat
- both
- Target species
- Trophy planted rainbow trout · Largemouth bass · Catfish · Crappie · Bluegill
- Intl tip
- Fish the shoreline near the dam and campground in spring with PowerBait about 18 inches off the bottom, and time your visit for the spring trout derby when the biggest fish are stocked.
The guide
Collins Lake is the go-to family trophy-trout lake of the northern foothills - a privately run recreation area near Oregon Hous…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Collins Lake — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 39.293, -121.185