With water temperatures ranging from 66 degrees at the dam to 69 degrees at Juniper Pt. Big Bear Lake is warm and in summer mode. Oxygens levels are great from the top to within a few feet of the bottom. Trout are being caught from the observatory all the way down to the dam due to these uniform and favorable conditions. The best trout bite is early and late due to clarity as deep as 12 feet. Bait anglers hanging PowerBait off a slip bobber set at 15 to 20 feet are doing well be it from the shore from Windy Pt. and to the ewst, or drifting the middle of the lake in a boat. Trollers are finding the trout up on the surface with Rapalas and nightcrawlers at dawn and dusk, then going down to three and a half colors of leadcore during brighter daylight hours. Needlefish and Dick Nite spoons are getting the best deep action.

All the summer time specieas are active and easy to catch. Crappie and Bluegill are hitting minijigs and worms hung of a bobber near docks and weed beds. Catfish are being caught by nocturnal anglers on shrimp, mackerel and stinkbaits fished off sandy bottoms near Eagle Pt., Gilner Pt. and the observatory. Bass action for large and small varieties is slow; pitching spinners and plastics near docks early and late is your best bet.