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Lake Elevation: 1737
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Surface water temp: 54 - 58 degrees

Fish Plants: Rainbow trout, 2,400 pounds February 22nd.

Lake Hours: 6:30 am ??? 4:30 pm

Weather: Temperatures have been in the upper 70's. There have not been any severe winds. Mild rain on Sunday.

Bass: Bass fishing has been strong at DVL. There has been a good morning bite swimbaits in the marina. During the remainder of the day bass have been holding between 30- 50 feet on the points and along the dams. The best methods to get the deeper fish has been trolling cranks with downriggers or lead core, ice jigging, or Carolina rigging six inch plastics, brush hogs and lizards. There have been many reports of bass being caught in much shallower water than previous weeks. Bass have been chasing trout around the shoreline fishing area and have been hunting bait fish close to the surface. This has lead to many catches on crawdads, Ikas, and Senkos.????

The Anglers Choice bass tournament on the 10^th was another outstanding display of DVL bass fishing. Winning weight was 23.8 pounds caught by Krumsiek and Krumsiek. Sartori and Dickerson got the second spot with a 22.79 pound limit their big fish weighed 6.2 pounds. Linehan and Moreno got a 22.26 pound bag with biggest fish at 6.17 pounds. The biggest fish of the day caught by Quineros and Lillibridge weighed an impressive 7.33 pounds.

Art Hill got a 6.3 pound bass in Rawson cove at 12 feet on a Proline jig. He also got a 6.10 pound bass on a swimbait at 10 feet on the north shore. Curtis Hester got a 5.4 pound bass on crawdad. He was fishing from the first point of shoreline. Honree and Evan Davis from New York got a 5.6 and 5.9 pound bass while being guided by Mark Franco of Trout Chaser Guide Service. They were fishing with plastic worms near restroom 2. Jesse Dinkins of Hemet got a 4.88 pound bass at 45 feet while lead core trolling a jointed trout pattern Rapala. Honree and Evan made a second trip to DVL this week this time their biggest fish weighed 4.7 pounds each. They were fishing with senkos in the rock quarry. Ted Wilson of Chino got 4 bass weighing 15 pounds while being guided by Art Hill. He was fishing with jigs and worms in Rawson cove.????
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Trout: ????Trout anglers did well this week. Shoreline anglers have been doing considerably better than boat anglers. Those who have had luck have been catching the recent stockers using Power Bait, mini jigs, Lip Ripperz, rooster tails, and Kastmasters. The marina has been the top spot for stockers while the holdovers have been popping up along the east dam and on the south side of the wave attenuator. David M Sutliff of Hemet got a 3.06 pound trout fishing with green Powerbait on the shoreline. Manuel Delgado C&R'd seven fish ranging from 2-3 pounds fishing with powerbait from shoreline. Albert Patino of South Gate got a 3.68 pound trout fishing at 30 feet with Powerbait on the west dam. Trenton Kasten of Temecula got a 5.15 pound trout fishing with night crawlers near the marina.

Striper: David E. Trevino of Chino hills got a 9 pound striper fishing with an A.C. Plug fishing the points at 20 feet. ??Brent Malinowski of Norco got a 12.89 pound striper fishing the west dam with a swimbait at 20 feet.

Catfish: Congratulations to Doug Hagadorn of Valley Center got a 32.80 pound catfish; the biggest fish ever caught at DVL. He was fishing at 60 feet with a Pig N' Jig around the first island on the north shore. (Repeated from report last week.)

Panfish: There were no panfish reports this week.

Lake Records:
Lake Record Striper November 11, 2005: Art Berry of Hemet; 29.77 lb. striper caught at East Dam using swimbait.
Lake Record Largemouth Bass November 2003: John Krumsiek got a 14.85 pound bass.
Lake Record Crappie: 3.0 pounds landed by Keith Thomas. He was fishing with shad.
Lake Record Blue Gill: John Arganda, of??Menifee, broke the lake pan fish record by bringing in a 3.06 pound blue gill. He got it on a night crawler fishing near the saddle dam.
NEW Lake Record Catfish January 19, 2007: Congratulations to Doug Hagadorn of Valley Center! He caught a 32.80 pound catfish. He was fishing at 60 feet with a Pig N' Jig around the first island on the north shore.
Lake Record Trout, March 12, 2005: Shawn Luhmann got an 11.30 pound rainbow trout on the shoreline fishing area.