Mono Lake fishing: Cutthroat Trout, Brook Trout, Brown Trout
Target species: Cutthroat Trout, Brook Trout, Brown Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Navy Beach Paddle Boat Launch.
The lake
Mono Lake covers 45,516 acres in California, across Mono County. It is a lake: 91.4% of it is 110 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 151 feet (45.9 m). Our records hold 4 species for this water.
Depth and bottom
Deepest measured point: at least 151 ft (45.9 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 91.4% of the water is 110 feet or shallower. We hold 107 depth contour lines for this water.
- 0–10 ft: 20.2% of the water
- 10–20 ft: 8.4% of the water
- 20–30 ft: 6% of the water
- 30–40 ft: 6.4% of the water
- 40–50 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 50–60 ft: 5.7% of the water
- 60–70 ft: 6.8% of the water
- 70–80 ft: 7.5% of the water
- 80–90 ft: 9% of the water
- 90–100 ft: 9% of the water
- 100–110 ft: 6.3% of the water
- 110–120 ft: 5.5% of the water
- 120–130 ft: 2.8% of the water
- 130–140 ft: 0.4% of the water
- 140–141 ft: 0.1% of the water
3 target fish, led by Cutthroat Trout
- Cutthroat Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
- Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
Also recorded here: Goldfish.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Navy Beach Paddle Boat Launch — USDA Forest Service. website fs.usda.gov/recarea/inyo/recarea/?recid=20628 · hours: Open 24hrs/day, 7 days/week
The place listed has no fee or opening hours on file: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.
What is hard here
Wind is the limit, not the fish: 45,516 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle. Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.
Where this data comes from
- U.S. Geological Survey (Raumann et al. 2002; Lopes & Smith 2007; Root & Hynek 2026) — Digital Bathymetric Model of Mono Lake (MF-2393); Bathymetry of Walker Lake (SIR 2007-5012): class A, a survey of the bottom, 1986.
