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All seven lakes operated by MMWD are open for fishing year-round. Bass, bluegill, crappie and catfish can be caught in all of the lakes except Lagunitas. State fishing licenses are required for all fishing on our watershed lands. Lake Lagunitas is managed under a special program for trout and has different fishing regulations from the rest of the reservoirs. Lagunitas Creek between Alpine and Kent Lake is open for fishing from the last Saturday in April through November 15. All other streams on MMWD lands are closed to all fishing all year. For a recorded message with the most current fishing information, please call (415) 945-1194. DFG Resumed Stocking Reservoirs with Fish The California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) resumed stocking rainbow trout into Bon Tempe Lake and Lake Lagunitas, after a 6-month period of no plants. On November 24, 2008, DFG was issued a court order to cease all fish stocking into many waters throughout the state, including MMWD reservoirs, while they completed an environmental review of the stocking program. The ban on stocking into Bon Tempe Lake and Lake Lagunitas was reevaluated and DFG determined that stocking could be resumed. DFG's environmental review is related to concerns about environmental impacts from the fish-stocking program as a whole and is not specific to MMWD reservoirs.For more information on the court ruling and status of the environmental review, please visit the DFG web site at www.dfg.ca.gov, call the DFG Bay Delta Regional Office at 707/944-5500 or call Jordan Traverso, DFG Office of Communications at 916/654-9937. Health Advisory On Oct. 14, 2004 the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board and the State Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment issued an interim health advisory regarding certain fish caught in MMWD reservoirs. Click here for a summary of MMWD's health advisory. For more details, please go to the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment website. Reservoir water quality information is also available from MMWD on the "Water" page. |
