Fishing in Morgan Hill, California, United States

katietaylor3199

McAlpine IS a pay lake, but in exchange you get a lovely, peaceful location, rarely ever crowded, and trophy sized table ready fish eager to shake your rod. Grab your light or ultralight gear, pick up some OutKaster spoons at the office (shameless plug for my favorite spoons ever), or grab some worms and a worm float if that’s your game, and head on down. A net is a must, these big fish will bust your light line if you try to bank land them. Get there early enough and enjoy the sound of redwings singing as you watch the just risen sun skimming the mist on the water, with an occasional visiting eagle coming down for a breakfast snack. Re fly fishing, sure, if you’re good at roll casting. There aren’t too many spots with the room for a good back cast. SUPER handi-capable location, even the restrooms. *NO* catch and release. These fish aren’t small so that’s not a problem. Bring your best shiny charm, they stock lightning trout here too! Wishing you the best of luck.

DaUltimateFishingKid

Get there early then you’ll catch a nice size trout and when I mean early I mean when it opens and 7:00am but during the day you’ll mostly catch some bluegill and find a nice cove that has shade there will definitely be good size blue gill and maybe a bass or a trout. I went there and caught 3 bluegill sunfish and a medium size largemouth on a small fly fishing midge. They were smallish but it was fun feeling the fight! But now with the pandemic be sure to get there early cos they limit they limit the amount of cars with COVID. Tip if you wanna catch some nice 12+ inch trout use a small hook cos they are smart and then can see the hook so use a small one and for bait use power bait and do all that in the morning you’ll catch a 12+ inch trout. Right now they have stocked the lake with trout so it will be easier but don’t expect to catch a fish when you go there cos remember it’s a 3 mile long lake so you never know. Oh wait if you love catfish fishing then there are some catfish most likely flatheads I think but not entirely sure. And there are largemouths in there but hard to catch.