Pine Flat Lake

General data

Water type: Artificial lake
Progression: Kings River (California) -> San Joaquin River -> Suisun Bay -> Carquinez Strait -> San Pablo Bay -> San Francisco Bay -> Golden Gate strait -> Pacific Ocean -> Planet Earth
Climates: Temperate
Continents: North America
Countries: United States of America

Description

The lake was formed by the construction of Pine Flat Dam on the Kings River in 1954 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and has a storage capacity of 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km3). The lake covers an area of 5,970 acres (24.15 km2). The fisheries are managed and stocked by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, common fish species include: large and smallmouth bass, spotted bass, rainbow trout, king (chinook) and kokanee salmon, catfish, crappie and bluegill. Anglers can fish for native rainbow trout in the upper Kings River, which is a special management area that encourages natural reproduction of wild trout without the planting of domestic stock.

Cypriniformes - Carps

Common carp (Cyprinus carpio)

Sacramento pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus grandis)

Sacramento sucker (Catostomus occidentalis)

Salmoniformes - Salmons and Trouts

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Centrarchiformes - Basses and sunfishes

Largemouth bass (Micropterus nigricans)

Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu)

Spotted bass (Micropterus punctulatus)

Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus)

Siluriformes - Catfishes

Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)

Catches