CHEVELON LAKE — Fishing is fair. The lake is ice-free. The lake is full.  Try lures such as spinners (Mepps, Panther Martin, and Rooster Tail), and spoons such as Super Dupers, KastMasters, and Z-Rays, and flies such as peacock ladies, Wooly worms and wooly buggers, and semi-seal leeches. All Forest roads are now open. The lake is open to artificial lure and fly only. Trout between 10 to 14 may not be possessed The lake is open to electric trolling motors and /or up to 10 hp. gas motors.
BEAR CANYON LAKE —  Fishing is fair to good. The lake is full. All Forest roads are open to the lake. The lake will be stocked this week with catchable size rainbow trout. Try worms, Power Bait, corn, and salmon eggs, lures such as spinners (Mepps, Rooster Tail, and Panther Martin), Super Dupers, Z-Rays and Rapalas, and flies such as Peacock ladies, wooly worms, wooly buggers, and small nymphs in black, brown or green. The lake is open to electric trolling motors only.  .

BLACK CANYON LAKE — Fishing is fair.  The lake was stocked the first week of April.  All Forest roads are open to the lake. Try worms, Power Bait, lures such as Z-Rays, Super Dupers, and spinners (Mepps, Rooster Tail, and Panther Martin), and flies such as wooly worms, wooly buggers, Peacock ladies, and small nymphs. The lake is open to electric trolling motors only and/or up to 10 hp. gas motors.
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BLUE RIDGE – Road is open. Full and overflowing. No recent reports from anglers. It may be possible to catch some nice holdovers here, but the lake is not very shore-angler friendly. This lake is best fished from a small boat, kayak, canoe or float tube.

KNOLL LAKE – This lake is accessible. This lake is not scheduled for stocking until the second week of May. Knoll is often good for early-season holdover trout, but don’t expect great numbers. Try worms, salmon eggs, Power Bait, lures such as Z-Rays, Super Dupers, and spinners  (Mepps, Rooster Tail, and Panther Martin), and flies such as wooly worms, wooly buggers, Peacock ladies, and small nymphs..

WILLOW SPRINGS LAKE — Fishing is good, with many anglers catching limits, especially those fishing from boats.  The lake is full. This lake has been stocked with rainbow trout but also has plenty of larger holdover trout, plus smallmouth and largemouth bass.

All Forest roads are open to the lake. Anglers are catching trout on worms. Try worms, Power Bait, lures such as Z-Rays, spinners (Mepps, Rooster Tail, and Panther Martin), and flies such as wooly worms, wooly buggers, and peacock ladies. The lake is open to electric trolling motors and/or up to 10 hp gas motors.

WOODS CANYON LAKE — You need to be aware that there is a small area here just north of the Rocky Point Picnic area that is closed due to nesting bald eagles. This also means that the nesting eagles are aggressively foraging for fish at Woods Canyon and at nearby Willow Springs, so take along your binoculars.

Fishing is good. The lake is full. All Forest roads are open and the lake will be stocked this week with catchable size rainbow trout.  Try worms, Power Bait, salmon eggs, lures such as spinners (Mepps, Panther Martin, and Rooster Tail), small spoons such as Super Dupers, Z-Rays, and KastMasters, and flies such as Peacock ladies, wooly worms, small nymphs in black, brown or green. The lake is open to electric trolling motors only.

Where:Woods canyon
When:04/18/09
Caught:Trout
Technique:Flyfishing from float tube with peacock lady beadhead and grasshopper
Comments:caught my limit in about 4 hrs very nice hold overs from 14 to 16 inches they were winter lean but had lots of fight and they were hungry. noticed that there was quite a few lady bugs floating, but didn’t have that kind of fly with me wasn’t prepared for them saw shore fishermen catching well to good place to take the kids
Name:Michael hamilton