Lewiston Lake
Below Trinity Dam, near Lewiston · near Lewiston · Shasta Cascade
Fishing
At a glance
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Best season
- Year-round cold releases; spring through fall best
Permits and booking
- Licence required
- Yes
- Licence detail
- CA license (16+). 10 mph boat speed limit (protects the trophy-trout tailwater and wading anglers) - no fast/waterski craft. General trout regs; confirm current CDFW limits. No report card needed (landlocked).
What is here
- Features
- Constant-cold afterbay below Trinity Dam · Famous oversized holdover trout on the flat water · 10 mph limit keeps it calm and fly-friendly · Trinity River Hatchery sits at its outflow
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Allowed
- Good for a first timer
- No
Fishing detail
- Water type
- lake
- Water
- fresh
- Methods
- Fly · Spin · Trolling · Bait
- Boat
- both
- Target species
- Trophy rainbow trout · Trophy brown trout
- Boat note
- 10 mph speed limit - non-plane boating only.
- Intl tip
- A cold, calm trophy-trout tailwater below Trinity Dam - the 10 mph limit keeps it serene and fly-friendly. Fish the flat upper 'lake' section for big holdover rainbows and browns. Cold and productive spring through fall; base in Lewiston or Weaverville.
The guide
Lewiston Lake is the Trinity's hidden trophy-trout gem - a long, narrow, constant-cold afterbay below Trinity Dam that fishes m…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Lewiston Lake — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 40.72, -122.8