The San Bernardino Sun

Study: Changes in water flow delay 'Big One'

Fish report, June 24 - San Bernardino County Sun

FRESHWATER HOT SPOTS

Trout: The best action in Southern California has been at Big Bear Lake with limits of holdover rainbows to three pounds or better pretty common for trollers and shore anglers. Quite a few fish over five pounds thanks to plants for the two recent derbies. Gregory and Green Valley Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains are both being stocked regularly and the bites at both is improving. Jenks Lake is fair to good after its third plant of the season last week, and Lake Hemet is also pretty fair. The trout bite in urban waters is pretty much over for the season. But there is still a fair bite for holdover troll fish at Cachuma, Casitas, and Silverwood. Silverwood is probably the best of the three. Pyramid was planted this week. The bite also remains very good at Cuyamaca. Trout action in the Sierra Nevada remains just fair overall, but there are some bright spots. The hot pick remains Bridgeport Reservoir with limits of rainbows to four pounds, but there is limit-style fishing on some days in Silver Lake, and Convict Lake. For fly anglers, the East Walker, Hot Creek, and Crowley remain good bets.

Black Bass: The bass action is coming back on with most fish out of their post-spawn funks and feeding pretty actively. While fish are showing on plastics fished on structure most places, there is improving action on reaction baits, with spinnerbaits, cranks, and swimbaits at good option, too. The topwater bites are just turning on, too, throughout the region. Top bets are still Diamond Valley, Sutherland, Otay, El Capitan, Skinner, Casitas, Castaic, Piru, and Silverwood. On the Central Coast, Santa Margarita, Nacimiento, San Antonio, and Lopez are all still good for bass. On the Colorado River, the Lake Havasu and Topoc Gorge bites have been very good and the whole lower river is very good, too.

Striped Bass: There is an excellent striper bite at the California aqueduct near Taft with most anglers getting two-fish limits of fish from four to five pounds, with some to 12 pounds or better. The Colorado River bite is also breaking open in several places. The upper end of Havasu and Topoc Gorge are producing a lot of fish to two to six pounds with some bigger fish. The fish are congregating and starting to move up river to spawn. The Willow Beach bite turned on three weeks ago with some real quality fish over 20 pounds on trout-like swimbaits. Most of the SoCal striper lakes remain just fair.

Skin deep, a study of minorities

History of San Bernardino and Riverside counties, with selected biography of actors and witnesses of the period of growth and achievement...

The San Bernardino sun telegram story

San Bernardino

Printers' ink