Fish Report
FRESHWATER
SILVERWOOD LAKE--The Department of Water Resources will be implementing its mitigation for damage to the fishery caused by the drawdown to build a new outlet system. The program will involved seining out rough fish, stocking 7,000 bass, and construction of 300 brush piles. The largemouth bass bite has continued good in the mornings with cranks at the dam or spinnerbaits on the points through the main channel and at Rocking Chair Point.
BIG BEAR LAKE--The trout action fair to good in the last week, especially for trollers working No. 4 or No. 7 Flatfish in chartreuse or firetiger. Most of the action is still in 20 to 30 feet of water. The catfish are fair to good, and the panfish remain good to excellent.
HESPERIA LAKE--Good catfish action with a lot of 5-0 and 6-0 class fish being caught. Night fishing is the best bet. Top catfish was an 11-13 caught by Marie Clark of Victorville on mackerel and Hog Wild in Stock Cove.
JESS’ RANCH--The trout bite was good this week after a plant last week. Lots of limits of fish with the best action at the spillway in Lake No. 2 and the boathouse area and west side of Lake No. 3. Rick Holgun of Victorville caught a limit of rainbows topped by a 3-0.
LAKE PERRIS--The biggest bass in Southern California in a month was caught this week when a 14-8 largemouth was landed Sunday by Chris Parker of San Bernardino on a Berkley Power Worm in Lot 10. Overall, the bass action here is good early and late in the day on topwater and small plastics are also good, but mostly on smaller fish. The bluegill bite remains good.
CORONA LAKE--The catfish bite is very good, especially for anglers fishing in the trees with heavy line to land the quality cats. There also continues to be a good bite on crappie. The top catfish was a 15-pounder landed by Thor Dykstra of Ontario on mackerel off the far shore.
LAKE SKINNER--The catfish bite is excellent for anglers fishing from boats, with cut baits in deep water near the dam.
LAKE HEMET--Trout fishing is still mostly slow, though there is a DFG plant scheduled for this week.
ANAHEIM LAKE--Excellent catfish action. The number of limits has been impressive, both regular five-fish limits and 15-fish limits on the 24-hour fishing passes. A 15-fish stringer caught by Daniel Kim of Buena Park weighed in at 60.2 pounds.
IRVINE LAKE--Steady action on catfish and very good largemouth bass fishing. Most of the cats are from 2-0 to 4-0, while the catch-and-release bass fishing has yielded bass anglers 10 to 20-fish days on Power Worms and surface baits early in the day. Nick Sepulveda of Orange caught an 8.45-pound largemouth.
LAGUNA NIGUEL LAKE--Weekly catfish plants go in on Tuesday and the bite is nonstop around the clock for two days after the plant, and then it shifts back into an evening and night bite by the weekend. Top cat this week was a 22-2 caught by Robert Smith of Westminster. He caught the big fish on a mackerel head at the creek inlet.
OSO RESERVOIR--The bass action has been excellent as the fish chop through schools of shad. Top bass caught and released was a 10.3-pounder landed by Jim Niemiec of Tustin, fishing a spinnerbait off Shark Tooth Point.
CACHUMA LAKE--Bass are good early in the morning on topwater and cranks while there’s fog.
CASITAS LAKE--The catfish bite is very good with a lot of fish in six feet or less of water. The trout bite is fair to good for deep trollers working near the dam.
CASTAIC LAKE--Very good bluegill action in the upper and lower lake. Most of the fish are hand-sized and showing on red worms, wax worms, and nightcrawler pieces.
LAKE PIRU--The trout bite continues pretty good for anglers trolling with eight to nine colors of leadcore and a bikini, rainbow or firetiger Needlefish. The best area has been from the pumphouse to the dam and along the face of the dam and then to Santa Felicia Cove.
PYRAMID LAKE--The warming water temperatures are bring the stripers closer to the surface, and shad are starting to dimple the top early and late in the day. All this should trigger the surface action soon. Most of the stripers being caught are showing on anchovies in five to 10 feet of water in the channel and off the points.
SAN DIEGO AREA LAKES--Big bass and catfish action all over Lake Hodges. The bass bite is good at El Capitan. At San Vicente, good to excellent bass fishing with many limits, also good bluegill and catfish action with several cats over 10 pounds.
BRIDGEPORT--The East Walker has been flowing at 320 cfs this week, down from 350 late last week. Still mostly tough fishing. The West Walker is very good for fly and spin fishermen. Bridgeport Reservoir is excellent for boat anglers still-fishing in the upper end of the lake at Buckeye Bay and at Falling Rock Marina.
JUNE LAKE AREA--Good action in all the loop lakes with trollers and bait fisherman scoring on pan-sized trout, along with a few bigger fish. June and Gull have been especially good for fly-rod float tubers fishing matukas and wooly buggers, trollers, and anglers fishing a fly-bubble in the evening.
MAMMOTH LAKES AREA--Crowley remains good but anglers are reminded that the regulations changed as of Aug. 1 to artificial lures-only with barbless hooks and the trout limit on trout is now two fish greater than 18 inches. For perch, Green Banks, McGee Bay and Leighton Springs are the best areas and they are coming in on small jigs in good numbers. Twin Lakes, Mamie, Mary and George all good. San Joaquin River is good to excellent, especially for fly anglers. Rock Creek and Rock Creek Lake both good.
BISHOP AREA--Bishop Creek and Intake II are good on fish to 3-0. Lake Sabrina and North Lake are fair to good, and South Lake is very good. Planted with browns this past week.
SALTWATER
MORRO BAY (Virg’s Landing)--92 anglers (2 boats):2 ling cod, 180 red rockcod, 240 rockcod, 475 rockfish.
PORT SAN LUIS (Patriot Sportfishing)--31 anglers (1 boat):96 rockcod, 183 rockfish, 31 red rockcod, 1 ling cod.
SANTA BARBARA (Sea Landing)--25 anglers (1 boats):10 calico bass, 2 sand bass, 2 sculpin, 7 mackerel, 53 rockfish, 2 sheephead.
VENTURA (Harbor Village)--29 anglers (2 boats):6 whitefish, 20 barracuda, 11 calico bass, 20 sand bass. (Captain Hook’s)--48 anglers (4 boats):58 calico bass, 120 sand bass, 117 barracuda, 10 rockfish, 16 sculpin, 7 sheephead, 54 whitefish, 113 blue perch.
OXNARD (C.I.S.C.O.’s)--107 anglers (5 boats):166 barracuda, 40 blue perch, 134 calico bass, 17 rockfish, 38 sand bass, 7 sculpin, 19 sheephead, 33 whitefish.
PORT HUENEME--40 anglers (2 boats):6 yellowtail, 28 calico bass, 4 barracuda, 6 rockfish, 2 sculpin, 15 whitefish, 3 blue perch.
MARINA DEL REY--68 anglers (4 boats):3 white sea bass, 40 calico bass, 180 barracuda, 53 sand bass, 11 halibut.
REDONDO--120 anglers (5 boats):200 albacore, 12 bluefin tuna, 10 barracuda, 76 sand bass, 77 calico bass, 2 sculpin, 18 whitefish, 1 sheephead, 28 rockfish.
SAN PEDRO (L.A. Harbor Sportfishing)--154 anglers (6 boats):265 albacore, 4 bluefin tuna, 972 sand bass, 48 barracuda, 1 whitefish. (22nd St. Landing)--217 anglers (6 boats):127 yellowtail, 28 calico bass, 243 barracuda, 1,467 sand bass.
LONG BEACH (Belmont Pier)--20 anglers (1 boat):200 sand bass, 20 barracuda, 100 mackerel. (Pierpoint)--142 anglers (6 boats):1,174 sand bass, 13 yellowtail, 125 barracuda, 43 calico bass. (Los Alamitos Bay, Marina Sportfishing)--185 anglers (4 boats):92 barracuda, 1,725 sand bass, 1 sculpin, 5 sole. (Berth 55)--163 anglers (6 boats):194 albacore, 1 bluefin tuna, 192 barracuda, 1,081 sand bass, 30 mackerel.
SEAL BEACH--99 anglers (3 boats):42 barracuda, 709 sand bass, 65 mackerel.
NEWPORT BEACH (Newport Landing)--183 anglers (8 boats):104 albacore, 6 bluefin tuna, 92 yellowtail, 1,403 sand bass, 110 calico bass, 74 barracuda, 115 sculpin. (Davey’s Locker)--286 anglers (7 boats):74 yellowtail, 160 barracuda, 28 calico bass, 1,502 sand bass, 1 halibut, 2 sole.
DANA WHARF--163 anglers (11 boats):287 albacore, 4 bluefin tuna, 20 yellowtail, 1,113 sand bass, 38 calico bass, 35 barracuda, 1 halibut, 2 sculpin, 1 white sea bass.
OCEANSIDE--183 anglers (9 boats):457 albacore, 125 bluefin tuna, 69 yellowtail, 75 skipjack, 114 barracuda, 35 calico bass, 78 sand bass, 7 halibut.
SAN DIEGO (H&M; Landing, Fisherman’s, Point Loma)--411 anglers (21 boats):141 bluefin tuna, 420 yellowtail, 4 skipjack, 1,335 albacore. (Seaforth)--361 anglers (9 boats):282 albacore, 49 bluefin tuna, 66 yellowtail, 39 barracuda, 83 calico bass, 615 sand bass, 2 rockfish, 10 sculpin, 148 mackerel. (Islandia)--159 anglers (5 boats):80 albacore, 3 skipjack, 6 bluefin tuna, 54 barracuda, 24 yellowtail, 1 halibut, 79 sand bass, 47 calico bass, 58 mackerel.
TROUT PLANTS
RIVERSIDE--Lake Hemet. SAN BERNARDINO--Green Valley Lake. INYO--Baker Creek, Big Pine Creek, Bishop Creek (Lower, Middle, North and South forks, and Intake II), Goodale Creek, Independence Creek, Lake Sabrina, Lone Pine Creek, North Lake, Owens River (below Tinnemaha), South Lake, Taboose Creek, Tinnemaha Creek, Tuttle Creek. MONO--Buckeye Creek, Convict Creek, Ellery Lake, Lee Vining Creek, Lee Vining Creek (South Fork), Little Walker River, Mammoth Creek, McGee Creek, Owens River (Benton Crossing), Rush Creek, Saddlebag Lake, Sherwin Creek, Trumble Lake, Virginia Creek, Virginia Lakes, Walker River (Chris Flat campground to town of Walker and Leavitt Meadows campground to Sonora bridge). KERN--Kern River. TULARE--Balch Park Lake (upper and lower), Big Meadow Creek, Kern River, Peppermint Creek (upper), Redwood Lake (Hedrick Pond), Stoney Creek, Tule River (Middle Fork, North Fork of Middle Fork, and South Fork of Middle Fork).
