Tasty catfish are on the chew at Santa Ana River Lakes
The catfish season is picking up speed at Santa Ana River Lakes. This is most likely due to the heavy double stockings of tilapia and catfish every week. Anglers still targeting trout will have a nice surprise as the heaviest fish of the week was a rainbow trout. Pedro Villa of Anaheim landed a 13 pound trout using a mealworm-marshmallow combo at the East shore in the Big Lake. Heaviest stringer of the week goes to Santiago Palacios of West Covina. Santiago fished overnight and landed 15 catfish totaling 36 lbs 12 oz. using mackerel at “The Road”. Santiago also fished two days earlier with his wife Adela Palacios and landed another 15 cats totaling 34 1/2 pounds at “The Road” again using fresh shrimp & mackerel. Greg Samarn & Dennis Johnson caught the heaviest catfish of the week at 10 1/2 pounds. It took the two man team to land this big catfish using mackerel at the big pipe in Chris’ Pond. Nash Helm of La Mirada caught 15 catfish totaling 29 pounds using mackerel covered in Love Sauce float tubing in the catfish lake. Santa Ana River Lakes is open seven-days-a-week and has 24 hour overnight fishing/camping sessions every weekend during the summer. New lower prices check www.fishinglakes.com for price slashes on the Big Summer Friends & Family discount special. The more friends and family you bring fishing, the greater the combined savings will be. For more Santa Ana River Lakes fishing information, call 714-632-7830 or log on at www.fishinglakes.com.
Huge 38 pound monster catfish caught at Corona Lake
The catfish bite has bite has been red hot at Corona Lake. Anglers watching the website stocking videos will see 3 separate stockings for that week alone at Corona Lake. 
Heaviest fish of the week was a 38 lbs. 9/16 oz. monster catfish caught and safely released back into Corona Lake by Julio Urutia of Placentia. Julio was using Whoopass Catfish Bait at J.D.’s point. The person that catches the biggest catfish between Corona Lake and Santa Ana River Lakes by Sept. 1st, 2013, will get a private invitation for himself and 5 buddies, to go to Imperial Catfish Farm to catch and keep enough catfish to fill a HUGE 96 quart ice chest. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity that has never been done before and can’t be done anywhere else!! Details will be posted on www.fishinglakes.com soon. Right now, Julio is in the lead with his 38 9/16 pounder but there are much bigger catfish in the Lakes and Imperial Catfish has the biggest channel and blue catfish in California for the exclusive stocking into Corona Lake. Carlos & Kevin Aktaro of San Bernardino landed 16 catfish totaling a massive 72 pounds. The team’s largest cat weighed in at 6 1/2 pounds fishing in the trees using mackerel. Bryce Edlund, James & Steve Anna of Trabuco Canyon caught 21 catfish totaling 51 lbs. 8 oz. with the biggest cat weighing in at 8 pounds. The angler trio were fishing in a boat at the center of the lake using mackerel. Daniel Robertson of Huntington landed 7 catfish totaling 37 pounds with his heaviest fish at 7 pounds using shrimp of a boat. Corona Lake is open seven-days-a-week and has 24 hour overnight fishing/camping sessions every weekend during the summer. New lower prices check www.fishinglakes.com for price slashes on the Big Summer Friends & Family discount special. The more friends and family you bring fishing, the greater the combined savings will be. For more Santa Ana River Lakes fishing information, call 714-632-7830 or log on at www.fishinglakes.com.