Lake Margery in El Dorado County: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Lake Margery lies in El Dorado County, California. The bank is 8,258 feet above sea level. This is a pocket water of some 4 acres, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. It is one of the smaller waters we list in El Dorado County. The nearest town is South Lake Tahoe, 8.8 miles away. Kingsbury lies 14 miles off, Tahoma another 14 miles. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Lake Margery

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Records held for El Dorado County cover rainbow trout, sockeye salmon and brook trout. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. At Lake Margery the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Between January at about 26°F and August at about 58°F, the water has a wide range to work through. Most months fish reasonably, given the right weather. In a normal year the cover is thin and short-lived. Autumn steadies things again once the heat lets go. That is the shape of the year on Lake Margery.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing we hold confirms whether access is permitted. Public data shows nothing built here, so treat the whole approach as informal. Light line and small metal for the trout; a fly rod earns its place on calm evenings. Sort the permit out before you load the car. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. Lake Lucille at 0.2 miles is the sensible second choice. What applies at Lake Margery may have changed since it was mapped.