Trout plants scheduled for this week for Southern California waters

The following is a Department of Fish and Game schedule of Southern California waters to be stocked with rainbow trout in the week beginning Nov. 3:

LOS ANGELES: Alondra Park Lake, Belvedere Lake, Cerritos Lake, Downey Lake, Echo Park Lake, El Dorado Park Lake, Kenneth Hahn Lake, La Mirada Lake, Legg Lakes, Lincoln Park Lake, Magic Johnson Lake, Pyramid Lake and San Gabriel River (East & West forks).

ORANGE: Carr Park Lake, Eisenhower Park Lake, Greer Park Lake, Huntington Park Lake and Laguna Lake.

RIVERSIDE: Cahuilla Park Lake and Rancho Jurupa Park Pond.

SAN BERNARDINO: Cucamonga Guasti Park Lake, Glen Helen Park Lake, Mojave Narrows Regional Park Lake, Prado Park Lake, Seccombe Park Lake and Yucaipa Lake.

SAN DIEGO: Chollas Park Lake, Cuyamaca Lake, Lindo Lake and Murray Lake.

IMPERIAL: Sunbeam Lake and Weist Lake.

File photo by Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times

Comments

[Jon K.]

I love trout, but is there a "best" fish to stock lakes with that would be more self-supporting?

[Darrell Kunitomi]

Unfortunately John, reproducing trout in an urban lake in this part of the country is nearly imposserous.

And, if those trout could reproduce, such as they do in Sierra lakes, or other North American lakes of suitable temperature and cleanliness, they wouldn't last a month. You can tell when one of our urban lakes are planted -- the next day, even that very day, the shore is rimmed with fishers, shoulder to shoulder. The trout go in, they get yanked out. And a lot of those fishers obey no Ca. Fish and Game laws. I've heard of a massive take by a couple of Mensa candidates of Echo Park. I heard a figure of over 100. They lugged the catch back, and fed their block.

I grew up fishing Echo Park lake. We used to have a fantastic fishery of warm water fishes, the classic kid's fishes that were easy to catch and put up a fight: bluegills, sunnies, crappie and bass. The Florida-strain bass that went in after the 1984 muck out ate everything.

Sorry, reproducing trout in the central city just won't happen.

[Jon K.]

Darrell Kunitomi,

Thanks for the feedback. What about catfish?

[chris g]

Did you really say Mensa candidates?