I was going to post the winners yesterday–but better late than never! The BIG news from the 2009 TroutFest is that a number of tagged fish were caught–which has not always been the case:

Brett Downing (Huntington Beach) caught the tagged fish that won her a brand new Ford F150 Super Crew truck.
Local resident Jeri Peacock-Licht [...]

Big Bear Fishing Report by Alan Sharp
High winds and cold temperatures put the big chill on TroutFest 2009 but even so 1000 anglers put a small dent in all the fish that were planted for the event on Saturday.
By Sunday morning the wind chill was 30 degrees and half the anglers stayed under the covers.
Water [...]

Big Bear Fishing Report by Alan Sharp
Oxygen levels have plummeted on the west end of the lake. At the dam oxygen levels are only good in the top 13 feet of the water column and only the top 26 feet at Papoose Bay.
In contrast oxygen levels are high from the west ramp all the way [...]