For the second week in a row, Corona Lake has produced trout over 18 pounds. Last week a pair of Sierra Bows over 18 pounds were caught during the Lip RipperZ Hatchery Dust tournament, and this week Miguel Monteleon, West Covina, landed an 18-pound, 10-ounce rainbow fishing from shore with Hatchery Dust added to a floating bait.

Mike Covel, Yucaipa, lande3d a 16 1/2-pound rainbow fishing PowerBait with Hatchery Dust to top off his five-fish limit, while Alex Brenton, landed rainbows at 15 1/2-pounds and 10 pounds fishing from a float tube with small jigs to cap his limit. Todd, Ross, and Lawrence Stevens, all Murrieta, had 15 rainbows for 35 pounds total, including a 15-pound Sierra Bow, while fishing trout worms from a boat. Ernie Lastimado, Chula Vista, caught a 14 1/4-pounder from the dam shoreline with chartreuse PowerBait.

The best bite for shore anglers is still from the cove behind bait shop all the way to the dam. Boat and float tubes are getting most of their fish from the dam to the upper end of the lake along the main channel, with the area off the boats docks especially good this past week. Floating dough baits rolled in Hatchery Dust has been the hot bait, but garlic-scented nightcrawlers, Power Mice and other small trout plastics, and small trout jigs have also been good bets.

There are huge plants each week, and all stocks include trophy-quality rainbows topping 10 pounds. There have been over eight tons of trophy rainbows topping 10 pounds planted in Corona Lake and its sister waters Santa Ana River Lakes and Anaheim Lake (during the short two weeks it was open in October) this trout season.

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. 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.