Lake Amador Fishing Report
If the wind dies completely by 6, slide to the southeast shore as the wind turns northwest and keep casting the spoon into the new wind line.
THE CALL: Rainbow trout, tonight's 4:00–6:00 PM calm window, working the wind-blown north shore with a 1/8-oz silver-blue Kastmaster cast and slow-rolled. Be on the water by 4:00 PM — that's the top-ranked forecast window (8 mph manageable wind), it overlaps the major solunar period (2:10–4:40 PM, timing context only), and the wind dies to 3–5 mph by 6:00 PM with sunset at 4:53 PM, so you fish the best hour in low light.
WHY IT WINS:
- Water temp: the last modeled reading is 64°F from Oct 30 — 13 days stale — and the graphed series was cooling (73.25°F on Oct 20, -4.5°F over its last 30 days). My estimate: upper 50s to ~60°F surface now. That's prime trout water, and Amador's October–May planting program means fresh fish are the most plausible listed target.
- Wind: 9.2 mph out of the south right now pushes bait into the north shore; the tools name it as the bank taking the wind and bait. By 7 PM the wind turns northwest and the southeast shore takes over — that's your second move.
- Forage read: shad minnows are listed in the lake, so a small chrome spoon matches both shad and freshly stocked trout looking for 2–3" prey.
- Tomorrow morning is a hard no: 15–19 mph SSE wind gusting to 33 with rain building from 8 AM through the afternoon. Tonight is the window.
START HERE: The north shore bank the south wind is blowing into — first points and any shallow flat adjacent to deeper water, working 2–8 ft. No mapped spot data was supplied, so the start is condition-based: look for wind lines and any surface activity, and give the dam area a check on your map as a known main-lake feature.
THROW THIS: 1/8-oz Kastmaster in silver-blue, cast 45° to the wind, slow roll with occasional twitches. Backup bait: a chartreuse or rainbow-pattern 1/16-oz Rooster Tail if they want something smaller and slower.
BEST WINDOW: 4:00–6:00 PM today. Forecast: 75°F dropping to 64°F, wind 8.1 mph falling to 3.4 mph, mostly cloudy, 0% precip. Cloud cover keeps fish shallow longer.
NEXT MOVE: If the spoon gets nothing in 30 minutes of steady casting, slow down — switch to a nightcrawler or Power Bait under a slip-bobber set 6–8 ft over the same bank, since cooling water and a falling barometer (1007 mb) often call for a slower presentation. If the wind dies completely by 6, slide to the southeast shore as the wind turns northwest and keep casting the spoon into the new wind line.