Fishing
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Peninsula offers a day use fishing area from the shore, as well as lakeside campsites that provide around-the-clock fishing enjoyment. The Store carries mini and large nightcrawlers, meal worms, frozen chicken livers and clams, and an assortment of fishing tackle. Our Marina offers 14ft Klamath aluminum fishing boats with 8 hp motors. We encourage parents and children to come to the store to have their picture taken with their prize catch of the day. We'd love to be able to put the picture on the our website.
Brown Trout
Rainbow Trout
Bass
Catfish
Bluegill and Crappie
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Anglers
will enjoy a wide variety of great fishing along 26 miles of
beautiful
Rollins Lake shoreline. Located 16 miles from the I-80/Colfax Hwy
174 exit
at the end of
You Bet Road, the lake boasts rainbow and German Brown
trout, and Kokanee, as well as spotted, smallmouth and largemouth
bass, crappie,
bluegill, Sacramento
Pike Minnow and large catfish. Catchable
Rainbow and Brown trout are usually planted in the spring. Fishing
Licenses are required and must be purchased before you arrive. Due
to DFG's new Automated Licensing System it is no longer economically
feasible for us to sell licenses. You may also purchase your fishing
license online. Resident as well as 1, 2, and 10 day licenses are
available online at:
Rollins
Lake has 66,000 acre feet of water when full with a surface area of
840 acres and 22 miles of shorline. The lake has a maximum depth of
270 feet near the dam and features a thermocline where trout can
thrive during the summer. The lake is fed from the Bear River and
Greenhorn
Creek. 
Fishing
is best in December-April and fall for the two-eight pound range. Troll
Rebels, Rapalas, and other lures in gold/orange and black and silver off
points near the dam and in Bear River. 
Action
is most productive in spring and summer for trollers and bait anglers
fishing in Bear River and Greenhorn Creek. 
Spotted,
Smallmouth and Largemouth Bass offer excellent action in spring, summer
and fall mornings and evenings. Fish crankbaits and plastic worms off
rocky points.
Bite
bait in summer and fall. Use clams, chicken livers, and nightcrawlers
(or whatever you had for dinner) in coves.
They
can be caught in grassy coves and around docks and trees on bait and
small jigs during spring and summer and early Fall.