After serious issues with Mt Lassen trout hatchery in Northern California, Laguna Niguel Lake has decided to purchase "Ruby Reds" and Nebraska "Tail Walkers" from Jess Ranch located only 1hr away in Hesperia, Ca.

2,000lbs of rainbow trout were stocked on Thursday January 03rd.

Big trout of the week was caught by Shane Doyle of Huntington Beach with a 5 lb 03 oz that hit an orange power worm jigged off the bottom at three pipes via float tube. Mallory Howe of South Pasadena weighed in a 5 lb trout that she caught soaking rainbow power bait off a boat in the flats. Kathy Nishida of Laguna Niguel topped off her 5 fish limit with a 4 lb 10 oz trout that chewed a green "trout king" jig in the flats off a boat. Due to Mt Lassen not showing up last Sunday and again last Tuesday, trout fishing slowed down for a few days until our new supplier arrived with fish on Thursday. Lots of happy people (including our employees!) were treated to a fantastic trout bite as soon as the trout were stocked. Lots of 5 fish limits of trout averaging 2lb to 3lb's in size have been recorded in the past 2 days! Shore anglers doing well soaking different colored power bait and inflated night crawlers dipped in garlic scent. Fly fisherman are hammering down on fish in the flats using tiger midges, blood midges and grey bead heads in 10' of water. Next scheduled stocking will be on Tuesday January 8th.