The trout bite has continued to be excellent at Corona Lake with most anglers reporting limit-style fishing on rainbows average better than a pound, and many stringers have kicked fish topping three pounds.

The big fish reported this past week was a 10 3/4-pounder landed by Ricardo Vaquerano, Panorama City, fishing a jig on light tackle from a boat. There were a pair of 10 1/4-pound rainbows landed. The first was caught by Robert Medina, Moreno Valley, fishing green PowerBait from shore, and the second was landed by Robert Martinez, Ontario, also on floating bait from shore. Ho Vu, Hollywood, had an eight-pound rainbow, also on green floating bait from shore.

Top stringer was a 30-fish, 64 1/2-pound catch reported by Santiago Palacios, West Covina, that included both trout and catfish. He bought a pair of 24-hour passes and landed cats to 5 1/4-pounds on shrimp. One of the best trout-only stringers was a 10-fish, 25-pound limit posted by Jeff and Michele Chodowski, Pomona, fishing Lip RipperZ jigs from shore. Their best rainbow was a four-pounder. A typical double-limit of 10-trout was reported by Ben and Tailer Maple, Winchester. Their stringer was 14 1/4-pounds and included a 2 1/2-pounder, all on nightcrawlers from a boat. The weekly plants, which always include trophy fish, have made for excellent action. The rainbows are showing on scented floating baits and nightcrawlers, but the small jigs, plastic trout worms, and spoons are doing nearly as good.

There will also be bonus plants of three to eight-pound rainbows and loads of 10-plus pounders added the weekends before Christmas and New Year's Day.