July 16-Aug 9, 2023   Virginia Lakes Resort Fish Report

First report of the season, we opened mid July and very busy with all the fish that was stocked since June 28th. Fishing has been outstanding.

BFEF stocked 100 pounds in both lakes on Friday and not that many have come out.

It's been a very warm month to date with temps running in the high 70's and that brought a bit of moisture to the area last week then another week of very warm temps, and today the 24th it's breezy and very comfortable with the breeze keeping the mosquitoes in the bushes, so avoid brushing bushes unless you want to donate blood.

We have a large black bear roaming the lake around 6pm and he's quite healthy.

BAIT: Micetails, and powerbait are at the top with worms, power worms, and pinched crawlers are all getting the job done, especially Mice Tails and light green garlic powerbait.

LURES: Smaller Red/gold Buoyant, gold/red Kastmaster, black yellow dots Panther Martin, Silver Super Duper 501, gold Mepps, and assorted small gold lures. Lots of jigs of all sorts are also doing a great job.

FLY AND BUBBLE: Green Body mosquito, Adams parachute, olive elk hair caddis, , grey hackle yellow, Griffith's Gnat and small dark midges. Also try tentwing caddis in sizes 16 and 14. First shot on any new water is to use a searching pattern which is an Adams parachute size 16, something to put in your brain's fishing arsenal.

FLY RODS:Try small streamers, dark and olive damsels, leeches, prince nymph, and emergers. Great hatches the last few days before the temperature dropped and the wind kicked up, and dark mayflies (duns). Matuka's, black crystal buggers will produce and try midges. Also some flashy buggers and leeches. Lots of different flies have been working and getting the info out of the "fly" guys is tough.

BACKCOUNTRY: Not much news probably due to the all the fish that has been stocked since we opened. A few ventured up yesterday but the rain came

NOTE: If the trout bleeds don’t throw it back into the lake, it will die. If you care about the resource please be careful when releasing fish back into the water and IT ATTRACKS BEARS. More bears are NOT what we need.

Cooper Wilson 14 LA 1lb6 PB 7-26 LV

Dylan Suzuki Torrance 5lb4 MT 8-12

Cory Contreras, Ralph Coronado Hunt Bch 4lb8, 4lb7 PB 7-28 LV

Bob Ulters Blacksburg VA 3lb crawler 7-20 LV

Bob & Scott Hendren Oceanside 4lb3, 4lb Power B LV

Gary Walters Citrus Hgts 5lb1 Garlic PB 7-20 LV

Ed Stoll Norco 3lb7 PB LV 7-28

Austin Covell Escondido 5lb16 jig 8-12 LV

Walter Bordeoux Omar rodriguez Reno 4lb5 wormsgrn PB 7-16 LV

Cameron Baber Menifee 3lb6 PB 7-31 LV

Spencer Kubler San Jose 5lb9 jig 7-18 BV

Andrew Hwang Orange 7lb2 Jig 7-20 BV

Colin Kozai Torrance 4lb6 each MT 7-28 LV

Spencer Kubler 5lb8 jig 7-19 BV

Dominic Tavarez age 11 Temecula 5lb3 crawler 7-27 LV

Bug Giacalone 1000 Oaks 4lb1 Hookup 7-22 BV

Cis Kawahara San Diego 5lb grn powerworm 7-16 LV

David Martinez San Fern VLy 4lb7 MT 7-29 LV

Anna Rodriguez Crestline 4lb3 Garlic PB 7-30 LV