Limit-style fishing with a lot of six to 10-pound rainbows has been what Corona Lake anglers are reporting over the past week. Most of the trout are in the one-pound class, but most stringers have at least one or two kicker fish in those bigger size classes.

There were two 11 1/2-pound rainbow weighed in at the bait shop, one by Ralph Acarso, Moreno Valley, on a Mouse Tail off JD's Point and the second by James Elskamp, Ontario, on a marshmallow off the west shoreline. Trout at 10 1/2-pounds were caught by Doug Batter, Garden Grove, on a jig from a float tube and by Dave Halfacre, West Covina, fishing a jig from shore. Halfacre also had a 5 1/2-pounder as part of his stringer, and on another day he had a five-trout limit that weighed in at 16 3/4-pounds and included a 7 1/2-pounder. Jimmy Nunez, Chino Hills, landed a five-fish, 16 1/2-pound stringer topped off by a 7.4-pound rainbow, all on chartreuse floating bait from shore.

The bite has been good for the rainbows on a wide variety of scented floating baits and scent-doused nightcrawlers, but the small jigs and plastic trout worms are just as good if not better. One of the keys for both has been to fish light leaders.

As good as the fishing has been this past week, the action will just get better for the two long holiday weekends at Christmas and New Year's. This week and next week there will be bonus plants of three to eight-pound rainbows and loads of the Super Trout weighing 10 or more pounds with fish topping 20 pounds possible. That is in addition to the regular plants of one- to two-pound class rainbows.

Corona Lake will close 2 p.m. on Dec. 24 and remain closed all day Christmas, but it will go back to its seven-days-a-week schedule the day after Christmas, including the New Year's holiday. Fishing is allowed from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. on day passes or from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on an evening pass. Each of these passes is $25. Seniors pay only $23, with a $20 special on Wednesdays. All of these passes have a five-fish limit. For kids 4 to 13, a three-fish pass is just $12. The 24-hour passes are only sold the weekend nearest the full moon. The next weekend for this all-night fishing is Nov. 30-December 1. The 24-hour passes cost $75 and have a 15 fish limit. An angler can bring his wife and up to three kids 17 and under and all can help fill the 15-fish limit on one of these passes, and camping is free at Corona with a 24-hour pass.