Calendar
| May 2 | Office opens with summer hours |
| May 10 | Summer fishing season opens! |
| May 24 | Guest fishing begins (Saturday of Memorial Day weekend) |
| July 3-5 | Ramona is closed for the Kids Fishing Contest |
Headlines
- Office opens with normal days/hours beginning Friday, May 2 (see details under "Contact")
- Spring stocking is underway, and will wrapup by opening day
- There will be no change to dues in 2025
Water Status - The spring runoff has been slow to start this year and unfortunately we've already been called out, preventing us from storing much water as of late April. It's unusually dry this spring and unless we get significant rain in May and June, we'll struggle to fill our lakes.
Pelicans - as many have observed we've been getting more pelicans on the lakes who indiscriminately eat (gulp down) some very expensive fish. We've asked the Federal Migratory Bird office what we can do about this, and they said as long as they're not actively breeding / raising young, we can chase them away. By that they mean, harass but not harm. We're looking into ways we might do that next year with minimum impact to our anglers.
2024 Fall Projects - our main project this fall was refurbishing the dam at Shagwa. This involved building a clay mix cut-off wall on the down-slope side of the dam. We also moved the outlet to the NE corner. Together these will help reduce seep that naturally occurs through the dam and better direct it downstream. We completed the Bellaire inlet ditch pipeline in cooperation with CPW. We also completed several small maintenance projects this fall - work at the upper Mitchell headgate and Elkhorn headgate, cleaning out the toe drains at all the lakes, and doing some access improvements at Erie.
Boat Cleanup - We removed 7 boats from the lakes at the end of this fall's fishing season. Only two of the boats was 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.