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  • Hot Creek Area Map
  • Hot Creek Area Map
  • Interpretative Site
  • Location: Hot Creek Interpretative Site Location
    • A few hundred yards of public access between the hatchery and the ranch
    • has a gazebo with signage of the fish and the water
    • You can fish this section up to the Hot Creek Ranch fenceline
  • Tips:
    • Some deep holes and ripple water stacked with trout
    • Good dry fly fishing during a hatch but wet flies can be more effective depending on the insect life
    • Fish are very weary of presentation throughout Hot Creek
    • The best time of the year to fish Hot Creek is the early summer when there is plenty of runoff and the hatches are active
    • Hoppers are effective during the summer
  • Hot Creek Ranch
  • Location: Hot Creek Ranch Location
  • Hot Creek Ranch Website
  • 300 acres of private water between the Interpretative Site and the Canyon
  • Traditionalist dry fly with little pressure, but private
  • Books up months in advance
  • Hot Creek Canyon
  • Locations:
    • Hot Creek Canyon Parking Lot 1
    • Hot Creek Canyon Parking Lot 2
    • Hot Creek Geologic Site
    • Below the Ranch and above the geothermally active area
    • Section at first parking lot is narrower than the top
    • Middle section between the two parking lots can be fun:
    • Use hoppers/caddis and target the far bank
    • Lower part of the canyon is very technical with skinny water and hesitant fish
    • Very bottom part of Hot Creek is fun with deep pools at the top with large fish
  • Tips:
    • Use same wet and dry flies used at the Interpretative Site
    • Pick up rocks to see what's underneath
    • Section has fresh water shrimp, so scuds can work well
    • Using small bobbers (eg just white material) works for fishing nymphs/wets
    • The top part of the canyon is great during summer, there is room to spread out

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