Convict Lake, Calif. — There are some things a man never forgets. His first car. His first schoolboy crush. And th+e place where he caught his first fish. For me, that place is Convict Lake, one of ...

Convict Lake might be one of the more picturesque and accessible lakes in the Sierra Nevada, but it has a violent past. It used to called Monte Diablo Lake until a series of killings in the late 1800s ...

LAKE ALMANOR, CALIF: Shasta Cascade Wonderland Association (530-365-7500): As of Nov. 8: Trolling by the dam produced brown trout and a few rainbows as did the Rec. 1 area. Scented nightcrawlers, ...

One is a former reserve quarterback in the NFL. The other is a certified public accountant who had an insurance company and became an investor in a fishing resort in the Eastern Sierra. Today, Dennis ...

Special Note: On Nov. 15, California closes most of its Sierra streams, creeks and rivers to 2005 fishing. Those waters will not re-open until the last Saturday in April. All of the applicable, open ...

nearly 8000 ft high in the Sierra is a trail around a gorgeous oblong lake carved out by glaciers and surrounded by the steep backdrop of the eastern Sierra Nevada and if the scenery catches your eye, ...

Reporting from Convict Lake, Calif. — My brother, John, tried to sleep during the boring part of the three-hour trip from Los Angeles to Convict Lake in the Eastern Sierra. Fortunately, I was driving.

For the first time in four years, anglers attending Merry Fishmas – opening day of trout season in the Eastern Sierra were not greeted with an early spring snowstorm. But while by the afternoon of ...