Lake Amador Golden Trout
Trout fishing at lake amador and the infamous lightning trout.
Lake amador golden trout. The meat of the fish is bright pink resembling more of a wild char or salmon filet. The lake management has planted a mixture of amador cutbows golds and rainbows from the on site hatchery since october 2019. 50 000 pounds of trout each season many of which are over 10lbs. We plant more pounds of trout per acre of water than any other lake in california.
The resort also stocked a total of 700 pounds of amador golden rainbows a special breed of trout on february 26. The launch ramp is dual lane. Lake amador is best known for its superb trout fishing which provides the heaviest planting program in california. We are currently done stocking for the season.
Trout fishing at lake amador and the infamous lightning trout. Photos have been emerging online of the rare looking trout. Lake amador boasts a whopping 50 ooolb yearly trout planting program from october through memorial weekend weather permitting. Radical shifts in the shoreline provide constantly changing cover requiring anglers to fish each section of the lake as a distinct body of water.
There are still approximately 8 000 to 10 000 pounds of trout in the hatchery. These photos show some decent size fish but they pale in comparison to the 10 pound fish caught by 8 year old cassidy frazier on lake amador in 2019. We plant from october though may and stock approx. Rainbow trout are abundant.
Looks like a rainbow trout but is bright yellow to gold in color and sports a dark pink stripe that runs horizontally along the lateral line of the spotless body. Fishing 24 hours a day 7 days a week year round. Golden trout liquid gold duration. Like other trout raised at lake amador s on site hatchery the fish being stocked in the lake now have deep orange or pink flesh similar to king salmon due to the krill based food they eat.
Followers 347 catches 7 spots 9. Norcal fisherman are seeing these lightning trout in norcal lakes like lake pardee lake amador and silver lake.