Manzanita Lake
Lassen Volcanic National Park (NW corner) · near Old Station · Shasta Cascade
Fishing
At a glance
- Difficulty
- advanced
- Best season
- June-October (frozen/snowbound Nov-May)
Permits and booking
- Licence required
- Yes
- Licence detail
- CA license (16+). STRICT SPECIAL REGULATION: catch-and-release only, artificial lures/flies, single barbless hook, no bait, zero harvest. A CDFW blue-ribbon fly fishery. Inside Lassen Volcanic NP - park entrance fee/pass required. Non-motorized boats only (no motor may be carried).
What is here
- Features
- Blue-ribbon catch-and-release trophy stillwater · Classic view of Lassen Peak over the water · Selective, pressured trophy trout · Chironomid, Callibaetis & damsel hatches
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Not permitted
- Good for a first timer
- No
Fishing detail
- Water type
- lake
- Water
- fresh
- Methods
- Fly
- Boat
- both
- Target species
- Trophy wild/holdover rainbow trout · Brown trout
- Boat note
- Non-motorized only - float tubes, kayaks, canoes, pontoons.
- Nickname
- Lassen's Trophy Lake
- Intl tip
- Strictly catch-and-release, barbless, artificial-only - and worth every rule for the trophy trout. Fish it from a float tube or kayak (no motors). Inside Lassen NP (entrance fee); June-October only. Bring all your gear - no shop in the park.
The guide
Manzanita Lake is one of the West's premier catch-and-release stillwater trout fisheries - a serene, spring-fed lake in the nor…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Manzanita Lake — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 40.533, -121.568