Kilarc Reservoir - CA

Kilarc as it looked before the water was shut off last summer due to damage to the canal that provided water for the reservoir.

Since July this sign has greeted potential visitors to Kilarc.

This bald eagle looks down on Kilarc from a ponderosa pine tree near the water. A few minutes after this photo was taken the eagle caught a fish, something that won’t be possible in the future.

Easy access makes Kilarc a perfect place for the disabled. This angler lands another trout from his wheelchair.

The parking lot at Kilarc is only a hundred level yards from the water.

With his dad’s help a young man catches his first fish.

Kilarc Reservoir. Always a nice place to go to fish for planted trout.

Nightcrawlers can be inflated with a worm blower to make them float above the weedy lake bottom. Usually that works just fine, but we did better on a recent trip to Kilarc Reservoir by fishing the worms with a bobber.

Herrick seems pleased with this pan-size rainbow trout. The fish grabbed a nightcrawler fished below a clear plastic bubble.

Author’s buddy, Russ Herrick, is about to catch another trout at KIlarc Reservoir. This was on Friday August 18.

Even I was able to fool some of the planted trout at KIlarc and here in one of the trout I took home for dinner. The fish were biting on Power Bait and nightcrawlers rigged to float above the bottom where the trout could see them.