Coyote Lake Fishing in Tuolumne County, California

• Overview

  Out in Tuolumne County, California, sits Coyote Lake. It stands 8,389 feet above sea level. The water measures roughly 8 acres, so nothing here is far from anything else. Twain Harte is the closest place, 26 miles off. For a city, Modesto is 75 miles off. Round about: Leighton Lake lies 0.6 miles on, Kole Lake (0.6 miles), Karls Lake lies 0.7 miles on, Five Acre Lake (1 mile) and Wood Lake lies 1 mile on. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Coyote Lake

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Species logged across Tuolumne County include rainbow trout, brook trout, Sacramento sucker, bluegill and brown trout. Records at county level tell you what is around, not what is stocked here. On Coyote Lake a short move beats a long cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from 26°F in January up to 59°F in August. Whether it freezes depends on the year. In a normal year the cover is thin and short-lived. Autumn steadies things again once the heat lets go. The season on Coyote Lake rarely departs from it. A settled week fishes better than a changeable one.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. Should this one be busy, Leighton Lake is 0.6 miles off. None of that is settled for Coyote Lake in what we hold.