McGee Creek
McGee Creek Road, off US-395 south of Mammoth · near Crowley Lake · Eastern Sierra
Fishing
At a glance
- Difficulty
- advanced
- Best season
- May prime; spring & fall run-ups from Crowley
Permits and booking
- Licence required
- Yes
- Licence detail
- CA license (16+). SPECIAL seasonal regs protect the Crowley spawning run-ups (spring/fall) — confirm exact dates, gear, and closure boundaries in the current CDFW regulations. Largely a wild fishery.
What is here
- Features
- Meandering meadow tributary to Crowley · Big spring/fall run-ups of browns & rainbows · Deep undercut banks, wild trout · Technical small-stream fishing
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Allowed
- Good for a first timer
- No
Fishing detail
- Water type
- river
- Water
- fresh
- Methods
- Fly · Spin
- Boat
- shore
- Target species
- Wild brown trout · Rainbow trout · Crowley run-up fish · Brook trout (upper)
- Intl tip
- Fish the spring and fall Crowley run-ups for outsized browns. Technical, brushy meadow water — go stealthy. Seasonal special regs apply; confirm current CDFW rules. Sierra Drifters guides it, including boat access to the lowest reach.
The guide
McGee Creek is a small, serious wild-trout stream — a meandering meadow tributary tumbling out of the Sierra toward Crowley Lak…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to McGee Creek — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 37.556, -118.802