Lake Size: 2,450 Acres Shoreline Length (Miles): 30 miles Latitude: 36.0605065 Longitude: -118.9192639 Lake Level Above Sea Level: 640 feet Counties: Tulare County Cities: Porterville Lake Management: US Army Corps of Engineers
Information: Lake Success is a lake near Porterville, California on the Tule River. It is formed by Success Dam and has a capacity of 82,000 acre-feet. The 156 feet (48 m) tall earth dam is owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Its construction was completed in 1961. The project's primary purpose is flood control, but the lake also provides water for irrigation and recreation.
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This is a lake for fishing and boating. Altho it is situated next to the Sierra Nevada mountains, there are minimal trees around this man made reservoir. A few oaks scattered about at best. Anything else is planted. This place is at the southern end of the Sierras, next to the Lower Central Valley.
Tule Recreation Area and Rocky Hill Recreation Area have 2 boat launch ramps.
Lake Success, 29330 Highway 190, Porterville, CA / 559-783-9200
Success Marina has boating supplies, fuel, boat rentals (patio boats, fishing, watercrafts)
Success Marina 559-781-2078
Surface area = 2,450 acres. Lake Success = nearly 4 mi long w/ 30 mi of shoreline.
Lake can contain 82,500 acre-feet of water when full.
Army Corps of Engineers construction completed 1961.
As mentioned before, Lake Success is best known for the fantastic pre-spawn bass bite, as well as quality year round bass action. Success Lake provides good habitat for black bass, black crappie, bluegill, white catfish and channel catfish. In the spring and summer months, high water covers shoreline vegetation, which makes for excellent shoreline angling. Fish attracters have been placed in the lake in the area of the north Tule launch ramp and in Kincade cove. For year round fun, rainbow trout are planted during the winter months. For the hunters among us, the 1,400-acre wildlife area on the northwest side of the lake is open for public use with hunting allowed, shotguns only, during appropriate seasons.
In the science fiction novel Lucifer's Hammer, written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, fragments of a comet strike the Earth, causing massive tidal waves to destroy most of the planet's coastal cities. Los Angeles is completely destroyed, and the collapse of dams throughout California causes the San Joaquin Valley to become an inland sea. The collapse of Success Dam is witnessed by two of the characters. After the disasters subside, an enclave of civilization forms in the fictional Silver Valley;, located slightly east or northeast of Springville, just north of the Middle Fork of the Tule River. The lake is currently drained
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