Health & Fitness

Stocking the Lake with Rainbow Trout in 1978

Here's an archived photo of Lake Mission Viejo from the Mission Viejo library.

Tom Paulson, assistant manager at Lake Mission Viejo, heaves a large bucket full of rainbow trout into Lake Mission Viejo. The Lake Mission Viejo Association stocked 6,400 pounds of the fish on November 10, 1978 to kick off trout season which officially opened November 11.


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