Lower Mokelumne River
Below Camanche Dam (Clements) · near Clements · Gold Country & Central Valley
Fishing
At a glance
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Best season
- Year-round for trout; fall salmon & winter steelhead run
Permits and booking
- Licence required
- Yes
- Licence detail
- CA license (16+). A managed tailwater below Camanche with special-regulation sections - confirm current CDFW gear rules, seasons and any steelhead catch-and-release requirements before keeping fish.
What is here
- Features
- Year-round wild-rainbow tailwater · Fall Chinook & winter steelhead run · Distinct Mokelumne watershed · Fly & light-spin water
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Allowed
- Good for a first timer
- No
Fishing detail
- Nickname
- The Moke Tailwater
- Water type
- river
- Water
- fresh
- Methods
- Fly · Spin · Bait
- Boat
- both
- Target species
- Wild rainbow trout · Fall Chinook salmon · Steelhead
- Intl tip
- Fish the cold tailwater reaches just below Camanche for year-round rainbows; time a fall or winter trip for the salmon and steelhead runs. Confirm the special-regulation boundaries and gear rules before you go.
The guide
The Lower Mokelumne, below Camanche Dam, is the foothills' other great tailwater - a year-round wild-rainbow fishery on a disti…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Lower Mokelumne River — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 38.22, -121.02