We had a beautifully quiet week in the canyon after the holiday weekend crowds subsided and fishing pressure on the lake was very light. Anglers fishing near the inlet, at Boiler Cove, and in the cove closest to the boat ramp, all reported a steady bite on pan sized rainbows to 14" with an occasional Brookie or Brown mixed in.

Bait dunkers are still doing best on crawlers fished inflated off the bottom or 5 to 7ft under a bobber but the powerbaiters are managing to do pretty well too with green garlic or rainbow garlic being the best. Lure tossers slinging metal lures like Thomas Buoyants and Kastmasters are coming up short surprisingly enough but those fishing jigs, trout worms and swimnbaits are still doing well, especially on the natural colors near the inlet.

The rainbows are still in spawning mode right now so anglers are encouraged to practice catch and release on lip-hooked whenever possible. It's also going to be at least a few weeks before we start getting any fish put in the lake, another great reason to let the lake fish go and keep the fish from lakes & streams that are already getting supplemented by the DFW.

The South Lake Landing crew managed to get 6 boats down to the water and the landing will officially open for business with a limited fleet of motorboats and kayaks on Friday June 7th. For the first few weeks we plan on only being open Friday, Saturday & Sunday from 7am until 5pm. We will be closed Monday through Thursday until we get additional boats in the water.

The lake level actually dropped about 2ft this week as SCE is giving Sabrina some much needed water now that the maintenance has been completed over there. A little disappointing for us but it is what it is. Hopefully we'll see things stabilize shortly.