Lake Cuyamaca Fishing Report

Have not seen a trout caught by me or any one. Fished 4 days in January fishing now February 2nd thru the 4th. Every day I would check the barrels at the fish cleaning station to see if anyone cleaned fish. Not a nibble by me or many other fishermen here that I talked to. Used jigs, power bait, mice tails, night crawlers and spinners nothing. This season has been very disappointing.

Saturday morning at cuyamaca was beautiful and there was barely any wind till about 12:30. I originally went for trout fishing as they had stocked 6 days ago but nothing seemed to bite whatsoever on the shore. I met a dad with his kids with 2 pound trout who had fished on his boat with worms. He gave me the rest and I sunk them and got hit with millions of bull heads and a carp, more than likely you want to hit mid ground to catch anything at the moment but trout will soon bite even more as they continue to stock

Cuyamaca is leaning mostly on panfish action this summer, with decent-sized bluegill chewing hard anywhere there’s cover or structure in the shallows. Trout have thinned out... plants wrapped up in early June... so only a few fish are showing at first light and deeper down for those soaking nightcrawlers or running small spinners. Bass reports remain dead quiet... some mention there was a large die-off last year, but this isn't known for sure. Shore anglers are casting near the docks in the rec area, finding plenty of small yellow bullhead on crawlers and carp on corn or dough baits.