O fer 2 1/28, 1/29

[jrodda]

Tried Laguna Niguel Lake again yesterday, hoping cooler weather and a few weeks of stocks would pay off with some trout to break in the G Loomis ultralight.

It did not pay off! Nice lake but out of 9 fishermen, nobody got bit including myself.

It's a nice little lake, 20 minutes from work, but going the other way from home, so an hour in rush hour after work.

Went to Mile Square Park today after work. It's on the way home which is nice, just a low visibility, scummy concrete city pond with a lot of goose and cormorant sh!t all over. But it gets the good trout stocks and it's free street parking, so I'm gonna give it a real college try until something good happens.

Threw spoons around for about 90 minutes and thought I saw some signs of life, but no bites. Then at sunset, snagged this gizzard shad. Pretty cool TBH, wouldn't necessarily expect the city to stock shad into this little body of water. I can't count this for my species list, maybe I should come back with micro flies though.



Was ready to bail anyway, but nice to get my hand a little slimy.



It's a simple enough venture that I'll try and hit this lake at least once a week or more until I get one of these damn things.

[Latimeria]

The challenge has begun!    Do they stock legit trout or is it more DFW ones?

[jrodda]

The challenge has begun!    Do they stock legit trout or is it more DFW ones?

Legit, I wanna say Black Canyon.

[Latimeria]

The quality of the trout is way up from when I started fishing stocked trout as a kid.  I used to think all trout meat was supposed to be white.

[Tim524]

The Local Lake competition has begun......Trout Fight 2025 

[jrodda]

0/4 this week, I brought in the expert trout coworkers and got them skunked on a plant day.

There will be light at the end of this! I am assured...

[Latimeria]

Hmmm... Let's see how long until it takes now you've been "assured".  lol