Winter Season: November – May
Laguna Niguel Lake is truly the finest Rainbow Trout fishery in Southern California! All of our Utah ‘Hook Jaw’ Rainbow Trout are trucked in from the Boulder Mountains of Utah. Thousands of pounds are stocked every month starting mid November. A total of 55,000 lbs are stocked every season. Our trout average 2-5lb in size, with hundreds of trophy trout in the 6-15+ lbs class. The Utah ‘Hook Jaw’ is known for the full tails, beautiful colors, pink meat and go tend to go airborne when hooked.

Trout fishing remains good through May.

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