DFG resumes Bay Area stocks of trout

"In the strange, ever-changing world of fishing, the Department of Fish and Game has come out on top in its biggest fight in years: finding a way to stock rainbow trout in California's major recreation lakes."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/29/SPCS1HEQ4O.DTL#ixzz1Ck3ZBN5U

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I did not know that stocking had resumed.  This is great news for the trout fans.

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http://dfg.ca.gov/fish/Hatcheries/FishPlanting/BayDelta.asp

For the Week of 2/6/2011
County
   
Water
Alameda
   
Lake Del Valle 
Contra Costa
   
Lafayette Reservoir
Marin
   
Lake Lagunitas
San Francisco
   
northern Lake Merced
Santa Clara
   
Campbell Perc Pond
Santa Clara
   
Cunningham Lake
Santa Clara
   
Sandy Wool Lake
Sonoma
   
Ralphine Lake

Great news!!!  Thanks for sharing 

now if we can just get them to let us launch a yak we'd be golden!

Yeah, it w/b great if they could breed quagga-mussel-eating-triploids!

Loch Lomand needs some love badly, that place needs the money anglers bring in..

I used to fish Los Vaqueros from the shore for trout before I discovered yak fishing.  I can understand the no body contact rule but it makes no sense that they allow the rental boats from the franchise operator at the marina and no others.  The rental boats are all electric.  The boats that patrol the reservoir are gas powered.  I used to go to Lake Casitas when I lived in Ventura.  It was a no body contact lake, but it allowed gas powered boats as long as you kept your body out of the water.  Is there a valid reason for what appears to be very inconsistent policy?

Loch Lomand needs some love badly, that place needs the money anglers bring in..

Then they shouldn't have shunned us... 

Loch Lomand needs some love badly, that place needs the money anglers bring in..

Then they shouldn't have shunned us... 

Yeah, I was seriously bummed when they banned boats/yaks at Loch Lomond.  I loved paddling that lake and won't ever go back.  That is, unless they repeal the ban on not allowing personal boats.

i feel the same way, so do many... That is such a nice quiet spot..

no more trout either? real bummer

Loch Lomand needs some love badly, that place needs the money anglers bring in..

Then they shouldn't have shunned us... 

Yeah. Still, Loch Lomond was the first name I scanned for. Then I was let down.
One of my kayaking regrets is that I never went up there to paddl,  pre-quagga and pre-non-stocked.

The Perc Ponds have been receiving plants for a couple months now I believe.  Seem a little slow getting around to the announcement.  Too bad Steven's Creek Reservoir didn't make the cut.

Anybody know where Northern Lake Merced is in Santa Clara County?  They must mean San Francisco, right?

The Perc Ponds have been receiving plants for a couple months now I believe.  Seem a little slow getting around to the announcement.  Too bad Steven's Creek Reservoir didn't make the cut.

Anybody know where Northern Lake Merced is in Santa Clara County?  They must mean San Francisco, right?

Dilbeck, that's my bad.  when I cut and pasted from DFG website the columns got skewed.  I thinkthey mean Merced in SF. 

Seriously bummed about SCR not making the Santa Clara County stocking list.  Especially since the water level is so high this year, it would be great fishing.   

It was a no body contact lake, but it allowed gas powered boats as long as you kept your body out of the water.  Is there a valid reason for what appears to be very inconsistent policy?

Ranger down here in santa clara nearly wrote us a ticket for swimming in the local reservoir.....but they allow waterskiing?   I think its more about liability than common sense.

Wish they would start stocking freshwater for us up here again

lagunitas...can't wait for the DFG to feed the bass...