FISH REPORT
FRESHWATER
Los Angeles County
CASTAIC LAKE--Largemouth bass action remains good for fish averaging one to three pounds. Night crawlers and shad are good baits. Plastic worms are working too. Striped bass are not as active but a 12-6 striper was caught on a Stocker Trout and another the same size on a Rapala.
PYRAMID LAKE--Bass action is fair to good with crankbaits, tube jigs and night crawlers. The average size is two pounds. Catfish action is fair with night crawlers and anchovies. Small striped bass are boiling at times near the island.
Ventura County
LAKE CASITAS--Bass fishing is slow. Trout fishing is best--they’re at 40-50 feet lake-wide and biting on Needlefish, Power Bait and night crawlers. Catfish are biting in the shallows on mackerel. Lots of 10-pounders.
LAKE PIRU--Fishing is slow. Bass fishing early, with plastic worms, is the best bet.
Santa Barbara County
LAKE CACHUMA--Trout action is slow to fair at the west end. The fish are at 40 feet and biting best on Needlefish. Bass fishing is fair early at the east end. Crankbaits and plastic worms are working best. Red-ear perch are biting on night crawlers in the brush at Arrowhead Island.
Orange County
ANAHEIM LAKE--The lake has opened stocked with catfish and the action is fair to good during evening hours.
IRVINE LAKE--Trout are biting early along the west shore, but catfish are holding the spotlight. Mackerel are luring limits of fish averaging two-three pounds.
LAGUNA NIGUEL LAKE--The catfish bite starts about 5 p.m. and fishing is good. A 15-pounder that ate a hunk of barracuda tops the list. Bass fishing has been spotty.
San Bernardino County
BIG BEAR LAKE--Trout fishing is slow to fair and no large fish were reported. Best area: Gray’s dock and Rock Wall. A few small bass were caught on crankbaits.
GREEN VALLEY LAKE--Trout are biting early on Power Bait, night crawlers and small spinners. No big fish but several limits.
Riverside County
CORONA LAKE--Catfish action is fair to good late afternoons and evenings. Crappies are cooperating too. Standard baits are working for both.
LAKE PERRIS--Small bass and bluegills are active but fishing is only fair early and slow during the heat of day.
LAKE SKINNER--Largemouth bass are active at the east end and striking dark plastics and night crawlers. Catfish action is fair and striped bass action is slow to fair. The stripers are deep.
San Diego County
LAKE CUYAMACA--A seven-pound bass was caught on a Trout Teaser. Bass fishing is slow, as is trout fishing. Crappie fishing is good on mini-jigs.
DIXON LAKE--Night-fishing for catfish is best, the fish averaging one-four pounds. Striped bass are being caught after dark and, in hopes of keeping them from overrunning other species, a free fishing permit is being offered as bounty.
SAN DIEGO CITY LAKES--Bluegill action remains good at Lower Otay and San Vicente. Bass fishing is fair at the bass lakes but the bigger fish remain elusive. Some crappies and catfish at all the lakes.
LAKE WOHLFORD--Bass action has slowed, but the emphasis is on catfish and fishing is fair to good early on mackerel and sardines.
Eastern Sierra
BISHOP AREA--Big trout were planted throughout Bishop Creek Canyon. A 6-9 specimen was caught on a Trout Trap in Bishop Creek, another 6-7 was caught on salmon eggs in South Lake and a 4-9 trout was caught on a Trout Trap in North Lake. Hard to go wrong anywhere up West Line Street.
MAMMOTH LAKES AREA--Crowley Lake remains very good, despite an algae bloom. That and a low water level have the fish stacked near the tributaries. Fly fishermen using chironomids, sizes 16-20, in olive, gray and brown are getting lots of action. The San Joaquin River action is superb for fly fishermen using olive caddis flies. Other good bets: Convict Lake (good chance for a lunker), Rock Creek (small browns) and Lake George (fish to nine pounds).
JUNE LAKE LOOP--The trout are holding at mid-lake in June Lake, striking trolled Needlefish and occasionally rising for woolly buggers and caddis flies. Trollers are doing best at Silver and Grant also. Gull Lake anglers are doing well early with small night crawlers. Rush Creek is fair with salmon eggs.
BRIDGEPORT AREA--A 9-12 brown was caught in Lower Twin by a Nevada angler trolling a U-20 Flat Fish. The fish bit at 70 feet. Upper and Lower Twin are good for mostly trout. Dropping water levels have the trout congregating at mid-lake in Bridgeport Reservoir. Inflated night crawlers are getting lots of fish in the three-pound class. Virginia Lakes good for limits of mostly small trout. Robinson Creek is well stocked with small rainbows.
SALT WATER
MORRO BAY (Virg’s Landing)--103 anglers (5 boats): 4 lingcod, 173 red rockcod, 116 rockcod, 168 rockfish, 76 albacore.
AVILA BEACH (Patriot Sportfishing)--30 anglers (1 boat): 54 rockcod, 7 red rockcod, 239 bolina, 5 lingcod.
SANTA BARBARA (Sea Landing)--30 anglers (2 boats): 2 barracuda, 42 calico bass, 1 halibut, 1 lingcod, 9 mackerel, 67 rockfish, 11 sand bass, 1 sheephead.
OXNARD (Cisco’s)--168 anglers (6 boats): 102 albacore, 33 white seabass, 3 halibut, 1 lingcod, 226 barracuda, 99 calico bass, 241 sand bass, 25 rockfish, 101 ocean whitefish, 1 red snapper, 4 sculpin, 10 sheephead, 3 perch, 1 sole. (Captain Hook’s)--15 anglers (1 boat): 75 calico bass, 32 sand bass, 3 sculpin.
PORT HUENEME--58 anglers (4 boats): 79 albacore, 53 calico bass, 5 sheephead, 65 barracuda, 1 halibut, 28 rockfish, 71 sand bass, 1 sculpin, 115 whitefish.
MARINA DEL REY--127 anglers (5 boats): 139 barracuda, 628 sand bass, 5 halibut, 25 calico bass, 1 sole.
REDONDO BEACH--83 anglers (4 boats): 270 sand bass, 1 white seabass, 125 mackerel, 35 calico bass, 39 barracuda, 1 halibut, 1 sculpin.
SAN PEDRO (L.A. Harbor Sportfishing)--80 anglers (4 boats): 51 albacore, 512 sand bass, 33 barracuda, 5 calico bass, 1 sculpin. (22nd St. Landing)--157 anglers (5 boats): 90 calico bass, 813 sand bass, 413 barracuda, 1 halibut, 37 bonito.
LONG BEACH (Sportfishing/Berth 55)--123 anglers (5 boats): 54 albacore, 849 sand bass, 50 calico bass, 43 barracuda, 3 sheephead, 1 halibut, 1 rockfish, 1 yellowfin croaker. (Marina Sportfishing)--142 anglers (4 boats): 103 barracuda, 1,298 sand bass. (Pierpoint Landing)--120 anglers (4 boats): 71 albacore, 71 barracuda, 866 sand bass.
SEAL BEACH (Big Fish)--14 anglers (1 boat): 12 barracuda, 140 sand bass.
NEWPORT BEACH (Newport Landing)--246 anglers (5 boats): 3 white seabass, 3 halibut, 89 barracuda, 90 calico bass, 1 sheephead, 1,439 sand bass.
DANA WHARF--227 anglers (10 boats): 67 barracuda, 450 calico bass, 938 sand bass, 28 mackerel, 4 halibut, 1 white seabass, 2 rockfish, 16 sculpin, 2 sheephead, 45 albacore.
OCEANSIDE (Helgren’s)--198 anglers (6 boats): 1 white seabass, 67 barracuda, 107 calico bass, 504 sand bass, 23 sculpin.
SAN DIEGO (H&M; Landing, Fisherman’s, Point Loma)--130 anglers (9 boats): 354 albacore, 2 bluefin tuna, 123 yellowtail. (Seaforth)--296 anglers (12 boats): 159 albacore, 2 bluefin tuna, 1 dorado, 1 white seabass, 27 yellowtail, 10 bonito, 147 barracuda, 330 kelp bass, 332 sand bass, 27 rockfish, 1 sheephead, 5 sculpin, 66 mackerel. (Islandia)--110 anglers (4 boats): 38 albacore, 30 mackerel, 45 rockfish, 3 sheephead, 2 sculpin, 3 whitefish, 15 sand bass, 227 calico bass, 57 barracuda, 2 yellowtail.
TROUT PLANTS
LOS ANGELES COUNTY--Jackson Lake. SAN BERNARDINO--Big Bear Lake, Jenks Lake, Santa Ana River, Santa Ana River (South Fork). SAN DIEGO--Lake Cuyamaca. INYO--Baker Creek, Big Pine Creek, Bishop Creek (Lower, Middle, North, South forks and Intake II), Cottonwood Creek, Georges Creek, Goodale Creek, Independence Creek, Lake Sabrina, Lone Pine Creek, North Lake, Owens River (below Tinnemaha), Pine Creek, Rock Creek (Rock Creek Lake to the end of the road), Rock Creek Lake, Shepards Creek, South Lake, Taboose Creek, Tinnemaha Creek, Tuttle Creek. MONO--Buckeye Creek, Convict Creek, Convict Lake, Deadman Creek, Ellery Lake, George Lake, Glass Creek, Grant Lake, Green Creek, Gull Lake, June Lake, Lake Mary, Lee Vining Creek and South Fork, Little Walker River, Lundy Lake, Mamie Lake, Mammoth Creek, McGee Creek, Mill Creek, Owens River (Benton Crossing), Robinson Creek, Rock Creek (Paradise Camp to Toms Place and Toms Place upstream to Rock Creek Lake), Rush Creek, Saddlebag Lake, Swauger Creek, Sherwin Creek, Silver Lake, Tioga Lake, Trumble Lake, Twin Lakes Bridgeport, Twin Lakes Mammoth, Virginia Creek, Virginia Lakes, Walker River (Chris Flat campground to town of Walker and Leavitt Meadows campground to Sonora bridge). --Compiled by Pete Thomas
