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April Office is closed, leave a message on our phone or email us and we'll get back to you within a week
May 1 Office opens with summer hours, see Contact for days/hours
May 9 Summer fishing season opens!

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Water Status - As has been widely reported, the snowpack is nearly the lowest on record for the Colorado River Basin, and it's the same for us in the North Lone Pine watershed. We assume that if there's any kind of runoff, we'll be called out (unable to store) and our ability to transfer water will also be limited. We'll of course carefully manage the fisheries for what is shaping up to be a low water year. Let's hope we have a strong and prolonged summer monsoon season!

Fish stocking - We're preparing for what we hope will be another good year of fishing. In April we'll stock all the lakes with a mix of stockers and trophies from Crystal Springs Trout Farm. And we've stocked Donaldson's in Shagwa, Browns in Apache and Erie, and Tigers in Nokomis. These Browns and Tigers are very expensive, over $10 per fish, so please handle them with care when your catch and release them! Also, please fill out the fish survey cards so that we can get data on the sizes and growth of the Tigers at Nokomis and the Donaldsons at Shagwa.

Office Manager Change – due to personal reasons Allsion is stepping away from our office manager duties. In her place we’re bringing back Ericca Hirt, who is a familiar person to many of you. You probably haven’t noticed the switch as both are so great at their jobs. We have been so grateful to have Allison head up our office these past five years and wish her the best of luck!

2025 Fishing Wrap-up - we had a great finish to our fishing season. For more information about 2025 through August, read this report. In addition to our normal fall stocking, we were able to procure several loads of trophy sized fish and put these in all but Erie (due to concerns about winter water levels), Nokomis (because it's at capacity), and Shagwa (because we're keeping this exclusively a Donaldson Trout lake). This fall's great weather enabled many to enjoy fishing through October. As for ice fishing this winter, when we finally had good ice by later January (for about a month), we had several reports of excellent fishing.

2025 Fall Projects - we cleared trees and shrubs off the Letitia dam and willows off the Hiawatha dam. We cleaned the toe drains below the four dams that have these and cleaned the sediment trap above the Snake ditch. We buttoned up our upper pipeline for winter (cleaning the sediment traps and closing the headgate). We cleaned the diversion structure on the Elkhorn - it's amazing how much ash sediment from the Cameron Peak fire is still coming down the creek.

Boat Cleanup - We removed 7 boats from the lakes at the end of this fall's fishing season. Only two of the boats were properly stickered. If you forgot to remove your boat, you can arrange with the office for a time to come to our boat yard and identify it and bail it out for $200 + $5 boat registration. We want to thank everyone who removed their boats at the end of the season. We can't emphasize enough how keeping boats properly stickered is key to successfully storing your boat at our boating lakes.