Virginia Lakes Resort Fishing Report

Fishing Report

July 5-11, 2026 -- Virginia Lakes Resort Fish Report

Weather: Full Moon July 14th the "Buck Moon"

Sunday	54°	5:38/8:23	Cloudy with drizzles off and on. Very quiet today. Lake is 61 degrees.
Monday	55°	5:39/8:23	High clouds but burned off.
Tuesday	58°	5:40/8:23	Very warm with light breeze.
Wednesday	31°	5:40/8:23	Warm with a nice breeze just enough for a good ripple on the lake.
Thursday	30°	5:41/8:22	Warm and calm with pm light wind for a ripple for the evening bite.
Friday	59°	5:41/8:22	Cooler this am but warmer this pm.
Saturday	°	5:42/8:22

July has started out warmer than usual and the mosquitoes are hungry, so bring bug juice to keep your sanity. The fish are down deep as the lake has turned over and that changes everything and the entire lake will be up around mid to low 60's in a few more days.

Forest Service has not replaced the "NO SWIMMING/NO GAS MOTORS" ON THE NEW BILLBOARD AT BIG VIRGINIA. If you see anyone swimming please inform them "nicely" it is now allowed.

BAIT: BAIT: Mice tails, mice tails and more ice tails and it STILL IS predominating everything. Pink with white head are the hot ticket, or orange with white head 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, gold Kastmaster, small Panther Martin black yellow dots, gold 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 Elk hair Caddis is on fire, #12 black ant, Adams parachute, grey hackle yellow and Griffith's Gnat and any small dark flies. With lots of fly and bubble new users, kind of nice to teach that method and it saves the resource for catch and release.

FLY RODS: Early in the week streamers were doing well, and some emergers surfacing. Great hatches on Little V the last couple evenings, and Matuka's, olive Dirty Doc 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*

Large fish for the week:
Kaylee Braceros LA 3lb1 Pbait 7-8 LV*
Jim Salazar Palos Verdes 3lb3 tag 0748 Hook-up 7-8 BV*
Michael Dalto Santa Clarita 4lb6 Mt 7-8 LV*
Chris Dalta Seattle, 3lb4 Fly 7-7 LV*
Kiyomi Sunada, La Verne 3lb4 Pworm, Salomi Sunada Chino Hills 4lb1 tag 768 LV

Chris Dalta Seattle 3lb4 Bly 7-7 LV