The beautiful spring-like weather has raised the water temp. to 52 degrees. The water is however still stained with a visibility of about 5 feet. Water level has stabilized, with plenty of water at the public launch. We received 1000lbs of trout from Mt. Lassen last week, 750 lbs. this week and 2000 lbs. from CDFW.

Trout fishing from boat or shore has started to improve greatly, mainly in the south end of the Lake all the way up to Hetch Hetchy. The best baits to use are Mice Tails, Powerbait and night crawlers. If you like trolling or throwing lures try Kastmasters, gold in color. Rapals and Roster Tails have also been working well.

Stripers are starting to show as well from boats or shore. The preferred baits to use have been anchovies, sardines and chicken livers.

Largemouth and smallmouth bass are still in deeper waters with a few reports. Most of the reports are from anglers who catch and release.

Catfishing has slowed down a bit this week. Most of are anglers are mainly targeting Trout. If you want to try for catfish you might try chicken livers, sardines, anchovies and night crawlers.

Big Fish Honors go to :

Kenny Khu of Livermore caught this striped bass, weighing in at 18 3/4 pounds. He was using anchovies, fishing in Swallow bay.
Tom Camps of San Jose caught a striped bass, weighing in at 8 lbs. He was using anchovies fishing the West Beach.
Mike Jones of San Francisco caught 4 trout, the total weight of his stringer was 5.90 lbs. He was using Powerbait fishing in Hetch Hetchy Bay.
Louie and Manuel Flores of Mountain View caught 2 Trout, biggest was 2.42 lbs. They were using Powerbait fishing on the East Beach area.
Guilleron Martinez of San Jose caught 1 trout weighing in at 5.02 lbs. He was using Powerbait fishing in Hetch Hetchy Bay.
Giqo Luong of San Mateo caught this striped bass weighing in at 17.15 lbs. He was using anchovies fishing at the West Beach.
Kai Oda of Palo Alto caught one t rout weighing in at 4.8 lbs. He was using Powerbait fishing on the East Beach area.
Ricky Garcia of Livermore caught a 34 lb. channel catfish on 1-30-16 using anchovies. Caught at the Lower Narrows. A NEW LAKE RECORD!!