Moccasin Reservoir Fishing in Tuolumne County, California

• Overview

  Moccasin Reservoir is a Tuolumne County water, California side. The surroundings are open plain. It runs to roughly 30 acres — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. 11 miles away sits Tuolumne City, the nearest town. For a city, Modesto is 40 miles off. The county edge is within a short distance of the bank.

• Where to Fish on Moccasin Reservoir

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. The old creek line under the surface is the feature worth finding. Held water runs deepest at the wall and shallows back to the inflow. Open biodiversity records for Tuolumne County list rainbow trout, brook trout and Sacramento sucker. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. Moccasin Reservoir responds to conditions more than to tactics.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate records put August near 76°F and January near 44°F. Fish stay active all year, but they move with the heat. The cooler months are the comfortable ones to be out. Autumn steadies things again once the heat lets go. Moccasin Reservoir fishes to that pattern most years. Fish feed harder before a change in weather than after it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Public mapping records no formal access here, so plan for a walk and soft ground. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Should this one be busy, Priest Reservoir is 2.1 miles off. Treat Moccasin Reservoir as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.