New Melones Lake is located in the central Sierra Nevada foothills on the Stanislaus River . The project covers some 10,927 hectares. The construction of New Melones reservoir inundated the much smaller old Melones Dam and reservoir which covered 745.8 hectares.

Fish species to catch at New Melones: Rainbow Trout, Kokanee Salmon, Brown Trout

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