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| May 23 | Guest fishing begins (Saturday of Memorial Day weekend) |
| July 2-4 | Ramona is closed for the Kids Fishing Contest |
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- Buy your guest passes by mail and save yourself any last minute stress!
- 2026 dues remain the same as 2025
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 captured a little local runoff from the early May snowstorm, but most of it soaked into the ground. Presently we're called out and unable to store water, which we expect will persist throughout the runoff season. 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!
Fishing - Opening weekend proved to be very successful. Despite low water levels, anglers and families had success at all the lakes. In April we stocked 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. Guest fishing starts Memorial Day weekend. We hope you have a fun and successful fishing season!
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 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.