Trout fishing will get a boost this week as 20,000 legal-sized rainbows will be stocked, complementing the legal and trophy-sized fish stocked last fall. Recent reports have been encouraging as fish in the 12-16 inch range have been caught. Trolling a wedding ring/worm behind an oval egg sinker and dodger has produced fish. Anglers were also successful trolling around the dam and throughout the lake below Peyton Bridge. Storm runoff had increased turbidity in the upper part of the lake but fish are biting closer to the dam.

The spring months are shaping up to continue the good trout fishing here. Bank anglers are catching fish near the Takelma ramp and near the marina and spillway using spinners, Powerbait or threading a nightcrawler below a bobber.