Black Butte Lake was formed in 1963 upon the completion of Black Butte Lake Dam. Located on Stony Creek west of Orland, the lake is an inviting and accessible recreation area on the west side of the Sacramento Valley. When full, the lake has a surface area of 4,460 acres, is seven miles long and has a shoreline of 40 miles. The dam provides flood damage protection for local towns and agricultural lands. Black Butte Lake is well-known throughout California as an excellent warm water fishery, with the best fishing during the spring and early summer. Crappie, largemouth and smallmouth bass, spotted bass, striped bass, channel catfish, Florida bluegill and green sunfish are the major game fish. A valid State of California fishing license is required. [Black Butte Lake. www.nwk.usace.army.mil, 02/03/2008]

No Reports are available for Black Butte Lake at this time.

Catfish
The catfish family comprises of blue catfish, flathead catfish and channel catfish. Since catfish are warm water fish, they aren’t going to be very active in this water temperature. They will still be feeding, but catfish will only be found very deep and feeding very slowly. Your best bet is give some of the more active fish species in your lake a shot until the cats are active again.

Fishingnotes.com has developed a highly accurate and sophisticated water temperature modeling algorithm to determine the mean daily water temperature based on climatic and geophysical data for this lake. Some of the variables used to determine the mean daily water temperature include past weather trends, solar radiation, evaporation, lake size, and lake geometry.

Currently the accuracy of the estimated mean water temperature is within 4 degrees Fahrenheit of measured temperature value in approximately 90% of our lakes. However Fishingnotes.com is continuously updating our water temperature algorithms to improve the accuracy. You can help make the estimated water temperature for this lake more accurate by providing the water temperature readings when you are out on the water. To do this add a fishing report below with the actual water temperature at this lake. This will provide helpful data to correlate the water temperature algorithms with.

Temperature: 34

Barometric Pressure: 0.00 (Falling)
With the barometric pressure falling on your lake it’s time to really crank up the trolling motor and cast as many times as you can while the pressure is active. Fish are typically at their most aggressive when the barometric pressure is falling. The fishing should really be getting good. Generally it’s time to fish a little faster and harder than most other scenarios. However look at the other weather variances and make the best decision for fishing today. As the pressure is falling it’s time to watch the sky’s to make sure you stay safe.

Wind Speed: South at 12 Knots (14 MPH)

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