Lake Number Three Fishing near Tahoma, California

• Overview

  Lake Number Three is one of the El Dorado County listings for California. The bank is 8,238 feet above sea level. It covers about 8 acres, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. 11 miles away sits Tahoma, the nearest town. Beyond it, South Lake Tahoe at 13 miles and Sunnyside-Tahoe City at 16 miles. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Lake Number Three

  Nothing we hold settles how deep this runs. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Records held for El Dorado County cover rainbow trout, sockeye salmon, brook trout and bluegill. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. At Lake Number Three the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between 26°F in January and 59°F in August. The year gives four workable seasons without severe ends. In a normal year the cover is thin and short-lived. Autumn steadies things again once the heat lets go. On Lake Number Three that shapes the whole year. Water temperature lags behind air temperature by days, not hours.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. Public data shows nothing built here, so treat the whole approach as informal. For the trout, small spinners and a box of nymphs cover both approaches. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Lake Number Five, 0.7 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. The position on Lake Number Three is worth confirming on the day.