Virginia Lakes Resort Fishing Report

Fishing Report

June 21-27, 2026 -- Virginia Lakes Resort Fish Report

Weather: Full Moon June 29th the "Strawberry Moon"

Sunday	66°	-5:33-8:23
Monday	67°	-5:32/8:23
Tuesday	68°	5:32/8:23
Wednesday	69°	-5:34/8:24
Thursday	74°	-5:34/8:24	Beautiful, clear and fishing's great! DWF stocked.
Friday	47°	-5:34/8:24	Very windy, blew all night, fires north not sure where but hazy there.
Saturday	44°	-5:35/8:24	Still windy and blew again all night.

Sorry for the delay in a fishing report, but there has not been much to write about. We opened on the 6th, and it was fairly quiet until the first stocking. The heat hit Eastern Sierra early March and the roads were cleared in 2 days. The winter was 2 storms of 3 1/2 feet and 12 small storms in the six inch range. Not a lot of moisture for this summer. But the mountains still have snow around the 10,800 foot level near the peaks and it's melting slowly and that's a great thing and the rivers seem to be flowing high. June has been warmer than usual and the wind dropped the temp drastically as you can see above.

BAIT: Mice tails, mice tails and more ice tails. Pink with white head are the hot ticket, rainbow glitter garlic, and yellow glitter powerbait, along with pinched crawlers were all on the menu for the week.

LURES: 1/6oz Red/gold Buoyant, silver/blue Kastmaster, black yellow dots Panther Martin, Silver Super Duper 501, "O" gold Mepps and a few small gold Kastmasters. Stay on the small size for most lures, the fishing has been sensational. One cast/one fish just about every time if you pick the right lure and spot along the shore.

FLY AND BUBBLE: Black gnat parachute black elk hair caddis, #12 black ant, Adams parachute, grey hackle yellow and Griffith's Gnat and small dark flies. With lots of fly and bubble new users.

FLY RODS: Early in the week streamers were doing well, and some emergers surfacing. Great hatches on Little V the last couple evenings before the wind, and Matuka's, olive Dirty Doc's and a lot of fly fishers using their special ties (their secrets) produced but no one tried midges. Still early in the season, but the fishing has been great! Lakes were stock with BFEF for their derby and DFW has stocked 3 times this month. If you hit the lake cruise over to other fly anglers and see if they are willing to give you a hint. You might get lucky!

Carolyn

Trophy Trout for the week (*pix attached)
Little Virginia/LV, Big Virginia/BV, Trumbull/T*

Cynthia Kawahara, San Diego, tag 745 PBait 6-23, LV*
Noah Agrellias Riverside 5lb4 Lure 6-23* Trumbull*
Bob Kawahara, San Diego 3lb4 tag 785 Pbait 6-24 LV*
Chris Kawahara San Diego, 3lb6 crawler 6-24 LV* pix with Dad
Brian Huerta Alpine 4lb4, 3lb4, 3lb8 tags 800, 747, 769 Mtail 6-24 LV*
Scarlett Ingardia age 7, Hunt Bch, 5lb tag 653, 6-25, LV*
John Ramirez Santa Fe Springs 4lb5 tag 797 crawler 6-25 LV*
Stephanie Skinner Vegas, 3lb7, tag 836 Mtail, 6-24 LV* with
Mars Rabin Stafford VA, 4lb2 tag 750 Mtail LV*
Ruben Reyes Jr. age 11 San Berdo, 2lb7 Pworm 6-26-LV*
Paul Ramirez age 12 Rialto 1#1 Pworm 6-26 LV*
Bilo Arellano Corona 4lb2 tag 772 Pbait 6-27 LV*