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Check out the Western Outdoor News article about the NEW Santa Ana River Lakes!! Excellent story about how the recent improvements will make for some FANTASTIC fishing. https://www.wonews.com/t-FeatureArticle_SARLReopening_120612.aspx.

NOTICE: Inflatable Navy, and want to be Navy Members, we are now an official Outcast Float tube dealer and we should have some basic inventory in stock shortly. We are working out details for a special offer and if you would like to be notified, please send us an email with your contact information to aaron@fishinglakes.com     WOW - Here is another fantastic piece of work just put together by Aaron, (sapdawg11) which he posted on FNN. 

Jim Matthews Outdoor Editor Rigging for Trout The Floating Bait Rig The most effective way to catch trout at The Lakes is to use a sliding sinker rig and one of the prepared floating baits such as Eagle Claw Nitro Bait. The rig is very simple. Take a small egg-shaped sinker and slip it on your main fishing line. Tie the end of the line to a small barrel swivel (without a snap attached), and then tie on 18 to 24-inches of two- to four-pound test leader

  Keep in mind, any time you tie a knot, make sure that your line is wet so that it doesn't suffer line burn when you draw it tight. Most anglers use saliva. Clinch Knot The Clinch Knot is a very popular and effective knot. It is also easy to master. Pass the line through the eye of the hook, or swivel. Double back. make five turns around the line. Pass the end of the line through the first loop, above the eye, and then through the large loop.

On a tranquil summer morning in the Imperial Valley, quiet surrounds a series of large ponds off a county road. The only sound is the gentle movement of water and the occasional croak of a great white egret. Then, the quiet is broken as a tractor rumbles to life and makes its way onto a dirt road overlooking one pond. As the tractor reaches its destination, a machine much like a snow blower begins hurling its contents over the pond. What follows

Santa Ana River Lakes . Corona Lake . Anaheim Lake Tournament/Contest/Lake Rules Update: 4/15/12 1) Failure to abide by Tournament and Lake Rules will result in immediate disqualification from the Tournament or Contest. Disqualified contestants will be ineligible for any prizes and/or points awarded during that event(s). Disqualified contestant(s) may be asked to immediately leave the Lake and NO refunds will be made for either the Lake and or the

DFG Reminds Dog Owners to Protect Pets From Salmon Poisoning Disease December 30, 2010 Media Contacts: William Cox, DFG Fisheries Branch, (916) 358-2827 Dana Michaels, DFG Communications, (916) 322-2420 Dog owners in the Feather River drainage area are reminded to take precautions to protect their pets from Salmon Poisoning Disease. Salmon Poisoning Disease can be contracted by dogs that come into contact with fish from infested waters throughout

Here is a GREAT post one of our regular customers (Aaron) sent in to FNN to help you catch more fish after a hard rain.  His FNN user name is sapdawg11. Thank you Aaron for the time you spent putting this together.  All we can say is WOW what a great job, excellent advice, you are exactly correct. What a great thing to do!! If any of you see sapdawg11 out on the water, please tell him THANKS!!   Techniques for beating the murky water at SARL

Hi Martin, We are happy that you have just recently began fishing our Lakes, and that you are excited about all of the fish that we stock on a weekly basis.  It would be sad for us to lose you as a customer because you were given the wrong information about how we manage the fish at Santa Ana River Lakes, because what you were told was incorrect. Thank you for your email, I know that this is a little long, but I have been meaning to put together

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS FOR FILLETING STURGEON Illustrated below are photos taken at the commercial processing facility at Sterling Caviar LLC. You can visit the Sterling Caviar website at www.sterlingcaviar.com. You will find all kinds of interesting information about their Sturgeon and the highly praised caviar they produce and sell all around the world. You can even order caviar right from their website. Also here is a great YouTube "HOW TO"

FARMED FRESH WHITE STURGEON QUICKIE COOKING HINTS THERE ARE COUNTLESS NUMBERS OF WAYS TO PREPARE/COOK/SERVE STURGEON.  HERE, WE HAVE PUT TOGETHER A FEW SIMPLE WAYS OF PREPARING AND COOKING.  IT IS EXTREMELY VERSATILE AND DELECTABLE. ·        SLICE THIN – DAB IN FLOUR – SAUTÉ IN BUTTER, MARGARINE OR OLIVE OIL, GARLIC AND OTHER FAVORITE SPICES. ·        KABOB IT -- CUT SMALL SQUARES, MARINATE IN LEMON OR LIME AND SOME OF YOUR

HOW TO CATCH STURGEON      Sturgeon are bottom-feeding fish, like catfish, that will eat just about anything that lives on the lake bed and ends up there when it dies. Large sturgeon living in Pacific rivers and bays feast on salmon and shad that die after spawning. They will eat all kinds of roe, clams and mussels, crawdads, or bottom-dwelling fish like freshwater sculpin that try to hide instead of fleeing. In Santa Ana River Lakes and Corona

Sturgeon History: A prehistoric survivor of the ice age, Sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in the world, some exceeding 2,000 pounds! Ancient Romans thought Sturgeon an aphrodisiac with life-extending properties. Henry I of England declared it the "Royal Fish." King Edward II was so devoted to Sturgeon he issued a decree that any Sturgeon caught must first be offered to the throne. In 1609 Henry Hudson noted abundant Sturgeon in his namesake

WHY DO THESE LAKES HAVE THE BIGGEST TROUT Santa Ana River Lakes Previous Lake Record Rainbow Trout Previous State Record Rainbow Trout 26.08 Pounds - Robert Vandevelde - Whittier, Ca Jim Matthews Outdoor News Service EDITORS/WRITERS: This story is on the Mt. Lassen Trout Farms triploid trout that are planted in Santa Ana River Lakes and Corona Lake. Mt. Lassen provides the largest and finest trout available from any hatchery in the Western United

Re: catfish killin Saturday, July 9, 2011 6:00 PM From: "geoffrey" To: "Fishinglakes.com" <fishinglakes@yahoo.com> Yea thats cool cuz its the truth. I cant wait to go again, last time I took my 5 year old nephew and he is hooked, next will be the 8 year old neice. thanx again. From: Fishinglakes.com <fishinglakes@yahoo.com> To: geoffrey Sent: Saturday, July 9, 2011 5:57 PM Subject: Re: catfish killin Man that's great!! I would like to

When I began float tubing, like most people I started with the bare minimum…A float tube, a pair of waders, fins, a PFD, and a single fishing rod. I used the provided Velcro lashing straps sewn into the float tube’s canvas shell to hold my rod when it wasn’t in use, held my fishing rod in my hands when it was in use, and fumbled with the stupid thing when I actually succeeded in catching a fish! Watching me from the shoreline HAD to have provided

By Aaron Sappenfield                 Fall, 1996…the Salton Sea.  It’s 6 am and the dry desert heat joins forces with the distinct odor of decaying fish to create a cocktail of some of the most disgusting air you could hope to not ever have to breathe.  Despite the putridity of this setting, I’m inflating a float tube for the first time in my life, gearing up to wade through a mass of rotting fish carcasses in search of monster