Fish Report for 2-11-2013

The trout fishing at Santee Lakes was off the charts last week

2-11-2013
Santee Lakes Staff

TROUT: Last week was filled with great catches from the Day use and Campground Lakes.
Bob Grant of Spring Valley pictured above caught a whopping 11 lb. 2 oz. Trout in the day use off of Night Crawler & Power bait.
Webster Dilon caught a 6 lb. as well as 3.5lb trout out of Lake 4 off of Power bait.

Landin Garrett-Clifton, Photo #1 of El Cajon caught the creel limit of 5 fish with one trout weighing in at 4 lb. and another weighing in at 3 lbs. Landin used Chartuse power bait with night crawlers at Lake 4.

Jacob Bingham of El Cajon caught a good size 5lb. 12oz. Trout out of Lake 3 off of power bait.

Local resident of Santee Sarah Heath, Photo #2 filled her stringer with a total of 4 trout, with 2 lb. 12oz. being the largest of the batch. Sarah caught these off of rainbow power bait on the east side of Lake 4.

Yet another trout over 5lbs. was caught out of Lake 4 by Larry Bethuwe, Photo #3 using night crawlers. Larry's catch weighed in at 5lb. 8oz.

8 year old Harli Thiem, Photo #4 came camping this weekend with her family and caught a 2 lb. 8oz. and a 2 lb. 12oz. trout out of Lake 7 using power bait.

10 year old Christopher McMurray, Photo #5 who was also staying in the campground caught 2 trout with the larger of the 2 weighing in at 3lbs. Christopher used power bait to catch his trout out of Camper Lake 6.

REMINDER!! If you catch a trout that weighs 5 lbs+ you are entered in our raffle that will be drawn at the end of Trout season April 1st 2013 for a flat screen TV. Santee Lakes fishing permit is required.

Night Fishing (registered campers only, lakes 6&7)

** No California State Fishing License required to fish at Padre Dam's Santee Lakes Recreation Preserve.

Fishing Permit Fees
Adult (ages 16 and over) $9.00 per day
Junior (ages 7 to 15) $6.00 per day
Second fishing pole stamp $4.00
*One child under 7 may fish for free with a paid adult

NEXT STOCK
(stock will arrive on or before date below)
February 22, 2013
1,000 lbs. of Rainbow Trout


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