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Tuesday's 5/15/12 Tilapia & Catfish Stocking Video

Summer 24 hour family fishing special Every Friday & Saturday

Friday's 5/18/12 Catfish Stocking Video (will be posted here)

CURRENT FISHING REPORT

Jim Matthews
Outdoor Editor
5/15/12

Trout and catfish showing
at Santa Ana River Lakes
 With catfish plants now every week at Santa Ana River Lake, the action on the whiskerfish is picking up by the day, but there is still a pretty fair trout bite on holdover rainbows.

The action was paced by an 18-pound catfish caught by Thai Dao, Los Angeles, fishing the marshmallow-meal worm combo on Saturday. The top trout was a 14 1/2-pound rainbow landed by Rayael Efren Moreno, Anaheim, on a Lip RipperZ Rat doused with garlic Love Sauce in Chris’ Pond.

Carl Adamo, San Pedro, had four rainbows to three pounds on Mice Tails with Love Sauce in Chris’ Pond, while Anthony Agular, Orange, had two trout to two pounds and two cats to three pounds fishing nightcrawlers with marshmallows. Jason Cruz, Santa Ana, landed four cats on mackerel and Crave Gravy with the best a six-pounder.

The catfish season Grand Opening has been set for Memorial Day weekend and SARL will be heavily planted with blue catfish.
“We have a huge surprise for all our fishermen,” said Doug Elliott at SARL. “As anglers may know, we own the largest catfish farm in the California, and we have been hoarding and growing the only supply of
blue catfish in the state. We now have over 300,000 blues for exclusive stocking of Santa Ana River Lakes and Corona Lake.” “Our current stock of these beauties range in size from two pounds to as much as 20 pounds are more, and we are excited about how big these fish might get in our lakes,” said Elliott.

Blues are the largest species of catfish in the United States, growing twice as big as channel cats normally planted in local water. The world record sport-caught blue weighed 130 pounds. But there have been fish caught by other means that have been reported to approach 200 pounds.
Blues are the catfish of legend and mystery. Stories of blue catfish eight feet long, and SCUBA divers who say giant blues have grabbed onto arms and flippers trying to drag them off to eat them.

The best news for anglers is that they are fast-growing and they get big and thousands of pounds of these quality catfish will be planted for the big opener Memorial Day weekend, and they will be planted every week of the catfish season this year. They will join the weekly plants of Silver Channel Cats.

The lakes are open seven days a week with fishing allowed from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. on day passes or from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on an evening pass. Beginning 5/21/12 these Adult passes are $25. Seniors pay only $23. All of these passes have a five-fish limit. For kids 4 to 13, a three-fish pass is just $12. There are 24-hour passes offered every Friday and Saturday night now. The 24-hour passes cost $75 and have a 15 fish limit. An angler can bring his wife and up to three kids and all can help fill the 15-fish limit on one of these passes, and camping is free at SARL with a 24-hour pass. For Santa Ana River Lakes fishing information, call 714-632-7830 or log on at www.fishinglakes.com.

5/15/12 NOTICE: We may be ending this Special very soon if the price of Silver keeps dropping in price as fast as it has recently. This may be your last chance to cash in on this deal. Don't delay, if you have some old silver change bring it in and go fishing for only $1.00 in silver coins.

IMPORTANT: As of 5/15/12, one silver quarter only contains $4.95 worth of silver. So a dollar's worth equals $19.80. Now is the time to bring in your old coins, before we are forced to end the Piggy Bank Special.

INTRODUCING THE PIGGY BANK SPECIAL!!
First Time Ever Offered!!

A lot of people have a junk drawer or a piggy bank that probably has several old silver coins in them that would not amount to a hill of beans if you took them to a coin shop. Bring them to the Lakes instead, because for a limited time, the Lakes will take them for admission. So start digging through that drawer or crack open that piggy bank and come have some fun for only a dollar with 1964 or older dimes, quarters, half-dollars and dollars.
Please read poster BELOW for more details.

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