

There are giant stripers in this lake and sometimes those swimbaits will score a 20-pound-plus giant for a bonus! Summer and fall will make way to a great topwater bite and fall can return to the swimbait bite and plastics bite again. Cranks and spinnerbaits also produce in the spring, along with trout-imitating swimbaits, if you put in the time throwing them. Springtime can bring a great worm bite here with any setup from drop-shot to Carolina rig working well. Not all fish are reported, but the lake staff keep pretty good records on those anglers they check. Also a few 'teen fish have been taken recently. Anglers are starting to take more notice of this lake with the rise in 8- to 10-pound fish being caught. In 2012 this lake put out its new lake record of 18.80 on a topwater bait. Watch for the birds on balls of shad in this lake it usually means crashing largemouth and this fishing can be wide open.Īlso in Riverside County is Lake Perris. Summer can bring a great topwater bite and all the way into fall. Some larger fish will be taken on trout swimbaits during this time. Once the spawn goes off, the larger females in the 5- to 10-pound range show up.

Springtime can bring on great fishing for largemouth and smallmouth in the 1- to 3-pound range. The lake record is already 16.43 pounds and should only grow larger as anglers figure out the big girls better. Diamond Valley has trout and the largemouth here should get giant over the years to come. The bass in this lake grow large as the stocked bass came from Lake Hodges in San Diego and these bass grow big naturally, without the help of trout. Starting out in Riverside county, let's take a look at Diamond Valley Lake. Let's look at the lakes that stood out this year. The big-bass hunters caught a lot of giants every month in 2013 and this should show you that if you put in the time, you should be scoring as well. Usually, springtime is when the big female bass are in the shallows spawning and it's your best bet at that trophy fish wall-hanger. Last season was also amazing in that big fish were caught all year long and at so many lakes. I hope I have you excited now, because you should be able to head out this year for some hot action. There were tournaments that took 25- to 30-pound 5-fish limits to win. Some tournaments had double-digit fish, with big-bass hunters scoring 'teen fish all around southern California. But, from the weekend warriors to the tournament anglers, everyone posted a ton of midrange 4- to 8-pound fish and many in the 8- to 10-pound range. All the lakes had high numbers of legal fish to keep the days on the lake interesting and fun.
