November 1 – May 31
6AM– 5PM / 7 Days a week
Winter Season: November – May
Laguna Niguel Lake is a 44 acre lake located within Laguna Niguel Regional Park. Thousands of pounds of Beautiful Rainbow Trout are stocked every week starting mid November. All of our Rainbow Trout are trucked in from Northern California two hours from the Oregon border. A total of 44,000 pounds of beautiful Rainbow Trout are stocked throughout the winter season. Our trout average 2-5lb in size, with thousands of pounds of trophy trout in the 6-15+ lbs class. Our Rainbow Trout are known for the beautiful colors of pink, blue, reds and purples, pink tasty flesh, hard fight and go tend to go airborne when hooked.
Laguna Niguel Lake is proud to introduce Steelhead Trout this year. 6,000 pounds total of Steelhead will be stocked in the month of December–January. The Steelhead Trout are known for their broad shoulders with colors of bluish-green along the back fading to olive, with small regularly spaced spots covering the sides, back and both lobes of the tail. The color becomes silvery to white along the belly. The difficulties of landing a hooked steelhead in winter are legendary.
Laguna Niguel Lake is truly Orange County Finest Rainbow Trout Fishery!
Trout fishing remains good through May.
No limit on trout starts mid May.
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Dan Ingouf, of Uniontown, OH, holding the
biggest fish caught since 2000 - a 15.5 pounder
caught on the right side of the concession
building using a chartruese power worm |
April 1 – October 31
6AM– 8PM / 7 days a week
Summer Season: June – October
Laguna Niguel Lake sports a variety of fun to catch fish during the summer months including black & white crappie, bluegill, channel catfish, & large mouth bass. The lake has a yearly stocking of channel catfish every summer. Record sizes of catfish have been reported weighing in at 28+ lbs. Laguna Niguel Lake also has had record size bluegill at 2.5 lbs caught and record size crappie weighing in at 3 lbs. This is a great time of year to bring the little ones fishing.
Laguna Niguel Lake is also known for its awesome largemouth bass fishery. Florida & Northern strain bass up to 15 lbs in size have been growing & spawning in our 44 acre lake for more than 12 years. An additional 2300 adult largemouth bass were stocked summer of 2003. Bass fishing is excellent during the summer.
LARGE MOUTH BASS ARE STRICKLY CATCH & RELEASE YEAR ROUND!
*Rainbow Trout*Black & White Crappie*
*Blue gill *Channel Catfish
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Brian Hatfield from Rancho Santa Margarita,
7 lb Bass, black & purple
jig-n-pig
down by the dam by the diffuser
in a boat, caught about 11 am |
