Now that the weather has settled down and high pressure is building the rainbow trout fishing is great on Big Bear Lake. With surface water temperatures still hanging in the high forties, trout can be found from the top of the water column all the way to the bottom.

Anglers are scoring easy limits of nice holdovers in the one and half pound to two pound range. Larger fish from four to over seven pounds are in the mix too. The area in front of Big Bear Marina known as "Trout Triangle" has been hot! Eagle Pt., the Observatory, and Lagonita Pt border "Trout Triangle".

BIG FISH of the week honors go to Mike Skinner of West Hills; Mike caught a 7 lb. 12 oz. Big Bear Bow while trolling a CD-07 Rapala at one and half colors of lead core in "Trout Triangle".

Lead core line trolled from one to three colors with Luhr Jensen Needlefish and Thomas Buoyants in tow are doing well. A lure new to Big Bear Lake that has been real hot is the Helgy! A new color in the Needlefish that has worked real well is the copper shiny yellow watermelon. If you do not have lead core, trolling straight mono from a spinning reel, with jointed or countdown Rapalas will do just as well.

Shore fishing remains strong as the bigger fish prowl the warmer shallow water in search a snack. Use a sliding egg sinker system and present Eagle Claw Nitro, Power Bait or an inflated night crawler off the bottom for some good action along the shore. The shoreline at Juniper Pt. has produced limits while larger fish have shown west of Windy Pt. Be sure to vary leader length from 1 foot to 4 feet until you find the zone the fish are feeding in.