Originally Posted by
HawgZWylde
They are a private business who must meet payroll. They must pay payroll taxes, liability insurance, workers compensation insurance and they also must pay their lease payments to MWD. And that's not including maintenance and fuel costs for their rental fleet and service vessels. You cannot compare DVL's operation to Perris because Perris's operations costs are covered by the state. Remember, this is Cali and the costs of doing private business here is freaking insane. As for the fishing at DVL it's actually been pretty damn good. I had a trifecta the last time I was out all caught on reaction baits, on top of an LMB double limit . The lake has risen so much so fast there is structure and solid vegetation all over the lake and the fish are from 0-50ft deep. Due to the quickly rising water and the currents created by it, there is no thermocline limiting the depth of where the fish can go. Burning cranks and blades have been my go to baits as of late unless I'm on deep structure then I throw jigs and t-rigs. Some guys are using big worms with good success where the bottom structure permits. Add the fact that there is an unbelievable amount of fry and baitfish. Everywhere you cast bazillions of fry are flying out of the water fleeing your bait all the way back to the boat. With all this new structure and all that fry with cover all over the lake DVL will go off big in a few years but the fishing is good now, you just gotta work for it.