What an exciting weekend! The water is way way up, so much so that our docks are now attached to the ramps coming off the wall right below the café – haven’t seen that since 2011. It’s a beautiful sight to behold. And my daughter was married in Dana Point, thus the late fishing report. And that was a beautiful sight to behold.

Still lots of limits were seen leaving the Lake this past week. NightCrawlers, Salmon Eggs, PowerBait and Jigs are all working at the Inlets. Drifting NightCrawlers in the channels or by the rock piles. Trolling is still on the slow slide, buy you might try a Red and Gold Thomas Buoyant. Shore fishing with NightCrawlers, PowerBait or just tossing a Lure. Brian Beavers, Jeff Laddusaw, Mike Laddusaw and Scott Laddusaw showed us how it was done – all four limiting out using NightCrawlers, Salmon Eggs, and PowerBait in 2 hours.

The Lake Sabrina Café is open seven days a week:

Breakfast 7:00am – 11:00am

Lunch 11:00am – 4:00pm
and our store hours are: 7:00am to 7:00pm.

Sounds like the trail up to Blue Lake and then to DingleBerry is free of snow, but George Creek is gushing over Blue Lake trail – stay safe out there. Remember to leave a note about your destination and approximate return time and a clothing description. And you might want to hike with a buddy.

The House Wrens may have started their family – not sure, but we’re keeping a watch on the nesting area. Sure is nice listening to their songs.

We’re hoping the weekend storm took out the new crop of skeeters and now that the wind is howling (gusts up to 42mph) maybe the rest will be blown out of the canyon, but just in cast, when using the bug juice, try not to get it on your hands – you’ll transfer it to your bait and the fish just don’t like bug juice or sunscreen or lotion or cologne or perfume. Wash your hands in the stream or Lake to get it off, and then use some fish attractant on your hands. If you’re coming to the Lake, don’t forget sunscreen and dark glasses –the snow and sun makes it pretty bright against the blue sky. DON’T FORGET THAT JACKET.

Breezy conditions at the Lake thru Saturday with temperatures ranging from 63 on Friday to the low 80’s by Sunday and the lows – high 30’s on Friday and by Sunday the high 40’s. You can check out the weather forecast according to Howard our local weather ‘guesser’ at www.MammothWeather.com. You can also check out www.weather.gov – enter Aspendell, CA (which is the little community right below Lake Sabrina) in the search field and you’ll get the forecast for at the higher elevation. You may need to scroll down on the webpage to see the temps.

Fishing etiquette is becoming a bit of a problem at the Lake and we don’t like problems. If you come upon someone fishing, please don’t fish right next to them – take a bit of hike farther down and don’t cast over into their spot. Same at the Inlet, there are so many areas to fish on this Lake go find another ‘soon to be’ favorite spot.