Imperial County Fishing Information 🐟

[admin]

Tucked into the arid southeastern corner of California, Imperial County isn’t the fishing capital of California for obvious reasons: Most of the water here is given to the plants that transform the desert into green fields.

The county does have two of California’s most unique bodies of water straddling its boundaries in the form of the Colorado River and the Salton Sea.

The Colorado River, down where it divides California and Arizona and then leaves the United States to flow south into Mexico, is much drained by all the people and crops that depend on its waters, but it still can be one of the state’s more productive bodies of water.

The Salton Sea, once famous for its corvina fishing, unfortunately is simply a shadow of its former fishing self.

A few smaller lakes and irrigation canals form the remainder of the fishing opportunities here, including a few lakes stocked seasonally with trout.

Fish stocking is done by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and stocking schedules can be found online on the fish stocking schedule website:
https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FishPlants/

[Werfless]

Best place to fish in SoCal in my opinion. Possibly better than anywhere in all of CA

[Neuroshima]

Some other content/links that might be helpful:

Maps of the canals:
https://drecp.databasin.org/datasets/fa ... 37ba8dc3b/


Flowrates:
https://www.iid.com/water/water-supply

[Baja_Traveler]

Heading out to the river in a couple of weeks! I'll report back...

[Werfless]

Flows are good at the moment...