New Hogan Lake
Valley Springs (Calaveras County) · near Valley Springs · Gold Country & Central Valley
Fishing
At a glance
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Best season
- Fall & spring surface boils; year-round trolling
Permits and booking
- Licence required
- Yes
- Licence detail
- CA license (16+). Inland striped-bass regs (confirm current CDFW size/bag). USACE lake. NOTE: OEHHA mercury fish-consumption advisory - follow meal-frequency guidance for stripers and bass.
What is here
- Features
- Rare self-sustaining landlocked striped bass · Fall & spring surface boils · Distinct quarry from the bass/trout lakes · USACE campgrounds
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Allowed
- Good for a first timer
- No
Fishing detail
- Nickname
- The Striper Lake
- Water type
- lake
- Water
- fresh
- Methods
- Trolling · Casting · Bait
- Boat
- both
- Target species
- Landlocked striped bass · Largemouth bass · Spotted bass · Crappie · Catfish
- Intl tip
- Watch for fall surface boils at dawn and cast topwater or swimbaits into the frenzy; when the fish are down, troll deep-diving plugs along the old river channel.
The guide
New Hogan is the one true striped-bass fishery in Gold Country - one of very few California foothill lakes with a self-sustaini…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to New Hogan Lake — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 38.152, -120.813