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BROWN TROUT COMING TO DIAMOND VALLEY:
ONS-Matthews -- 17may06
Outdoor News Service
Mike Giusti, the DFG biologist who manages Diamond Valley Lake, said this western Riverside County reservoir will be planted with 50,000 subcatchable German brown trout this year, and the lake will continue to get browns every three years.
"We're putting them in trying to create another trophy fishery," said Giusti.
The highly predatory brown trout will quickly adapt to the many forage minnows in the lake and should get big quickly -- just like the rainbows being planted each year. Diamond Valley is currently stocked with 100,000 subcatchable rainbow trout each year, and the water district plants 2,000 pounds of catchable and bigger trout from Mt. Lassen Trout Farms every two weeks.
"We've got holdover rainbow trout over 10 pounds out here now, but no one is catching them," said Giusti. Most of the trout action has been on 1 1/2 to 4 pound fish. Not slouches, but Giusti wishes someone would bring in a few of the big ones.
The last successful brown trout stocking program in a Southern California lake was at Silverwood in the 1970s when browns to 10 pounds were caught.
ONS-Matthews -- 17may06
Outdoor News Service
Mike Giusti, the DFG biologist who manages Diamond Valley Lake, said this western Riverside County reservoir will be planted with 50,000 subcatchable German brown trout this year, and the lake will continue to get browns every three years.
"We're putting them in trying to create another trophy fishery," said Giusti.
The highly predatory brown trout will quickly adapt to the many forage minnows in the lake and should get big quickly -- just like the rainbows being planted each year. Diamond Valley is currently stocked with 100,000 subcatchable rainbow trout each year, and the water district plants 2,000 pounds of catchable and bigger trout from Mt. Lassen Trout Farms every two weeks.
"We've got holdover rainbow trout over 10 pounds out here now, but no one is catching them," said Giusti. Most of the trout action has been on 1 1/2 to 4 pound fish. Not slouches, but Giusti wishes someone would bring in a few of the big ones.
The last successful brown trout stocking program in a Southern California lake was at Silverwood in the 1970s when browns to 10 pounds were caught.
