Hot Creek Hot Creek Hot Creek has been recognized as the most productive one-mile of wild trout stream in the western United States. Hot Creek is a spring-fed stream and rainbow and brown trout along with the insects and invertebrates that form the trout's food base are dense in the abundant aquatic vegetation. Conservation minded anglers avoid wading in the stream to minimize their impacts to the stream ecosystem. The one-mile section of public access on Hot Creek is one of the most heavily fished wild trout streams in California. A few years ago, a survey showed that Hot Creek supported about 3,500 angling hours per surface acre that year.
Anglers can expect their skills to be challenged to the utmost.
Perfect drag-free drifts and matching the myriad hatches of insect life are the rule. It also has the distinction of being one of the few roadside, fly-fishing only streams in California. Because of its importance the Hot Creek fishery was the subject of a long-term annual evaluation for over 20 years.