Corona Lake will host the huge Lip RipperZ Hatchery Dust Takeover tournament on Saturday, March 2. This is a 50-50 tournament with a 100 percent payback of all entry fee money into two parts of the event. The first part of the event is a traditional big fish competition with payouts to the top four heaviest trout. The second part of the event is a blind bogey event with the 10 anglers catching trout weighing the same or closest to the 10 bling bogey weights will win.

Tournament entry fee is $20, in addition to the usual Corona Lake fishing fee. There is also $250 in added money if the top four trout are caught on any Lip RipperZ product, and the first 150 anglers who enter the event and buy a bottle of the new Hatchery Dust product at the tackle shop or have a receipt from the purchase of Dust at a local retailer will get a free Hatchery Dust t-shirt.

Complete information on the tournament is available at The Lakes web site at www.fishinglakes.com.

The action at Corona Lake has been non-stop since trout season began this past fall. Trophy rainbows and limit-style action are the one-two punch anglers are landing this season thanks to heavy weekly plants of trout.

Vincent Van Aagten, Ontario, had a limit of rainbows fishing PowerBait and B-Line jigs. His was a pretty typical five-fish catch that weighed 7 1/4-pounds and included a two-pounder. Alex Esteban, Moreno Valley, had a three-pounder topping his five-fish catch on green and orange trout plastics.

The big news this week is the season's first plant of Lightning Trout. These colorful, pink-meated fighters will go this Thursday, in addition to the regular stock of catchable and trophy grade rainbows.

The best shore action hasn't changed much in recent weeks, with the cove behind bait shop all the way to the dam providing good action. Anglers fishing from boats or float tubes are getting most of their fish from the dam to the upper end of the lake along the main channel. Floating dough baits or Power Mice Tails rolled in the new Hatchery Dust, scent-doused nightcrawlers, small trout jigs and trout plastics have all been good baits for the trout.

Corona Lake is open on a seven-days-a-week schedule. 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, and those two days will be Feb. 22-23 this month. 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.