The 2016 fishing season is officially open! Last Friday, we stocked 750-pounds of beautiful rainbow trout at Lake Isabella, which we will continue to stock until April 8. For the full stocking schedule, visit Great Parks’ website. You can also view the full schedule of fishing events for 2016, and I’ve included some exciting new information about […]

Twenty weeks have gone by since Great Parks started its newest fishing event at Lake Isabella: the Colossal Fish Contest! Over the course of these 20 weeks, we saw more than 500 entries with 16 different weekly winners with more than $1,200 in Great Parks’ prize certificates awarded to the winners! For our Colossal (grand prize) Winner, we have […]

Panfish Cup Panfish Cup Standings – FINAL (pdf) Sharon Woods Bass League Bass League Standings – FINAL (pdf) Bass Series Tournament Bass Series Standings – FINAL (pdf) Colossal Fish Contest Click here to learn more about the new Colossal Fish Contest at Lake Isabella

There is still time to catch one of the colossal fish sitting at the bottom of Lake Isabella. Now that the water has gone back down to its normal level, and the temperature of the lake is hovering somewhere around 78-degrees, we are starting to see anglers catch those big cats again. The weekly big […]

Lake Isabella hosted its third tournament of the year: the new Rod Busting Tournament. Six teams tested their luck against some of the biggest catfish in any of Great Parks’ lakes. Not even two weeks prior to the tournament, Lake Isabella was stocked with 350 pounds of shovelhead and blue catfish, with the biggest one […]

This past Monday over the Memorial Day holiday, we had some scattered showers at Lake Isabella – but that didn’t stop 68 kids from participating in our Kids’ Mystery Fish Challenge! It started to sprinkle at little around the lake as the event began, but it didn’t last long and the kids were able to […]

The first week of the Colossal Fish Contest is in the books, and we have our first winner to go with it! Last Friday on May 8, Mark Davis weighed in a 53-pound blue catfish. That morning, Mark came into the boathouse, purchased his ticket, entered the contest for an extra $3 and then was […]

The newest Great Parks fishing event kicked off this week at Lake Isabella! The Colossal Fish Contest is a weekly event taking place May 4–September 20, 2015. Before you test your gear against the big colossal fish sitting at the bottom of Lake Isabella, here are a few things you should know about the contest. […]