Sorry to bring back an ancient thread, but I wanted to add my report from a visit to this lake yesterday, 7/25/2017.
First comment is the road to the lake and the lake are on my 2015 version of the honda navigation software!
The road is 2 lines wide for the first 6 miles then narrows to one lane for the next 4 miles. It's all freshly graded too. Lots of the land over the first couple miles off of 395 is sold. There's also fiber optic cable markers all over the place. Also saw 2 cement mixers coming down a side road....

Last time I visited this lake was 1993 and 1994. At that time it was little more than a mud puddle holding hybrid rainbow cutthroats. You could catch a fish on nearly every cast of a black nymph. Lots of fun... and worth the hour drive up.

This time we threw nymphs and buggers of different kinds and sizes. No luck. Tried mepps, cast master and power bait, no luck. Saw an empty jar of salmon eggs and a camp fire area that looked pretty fresh.

This was the last day of our trip. Spent the previous day and a half in the Virginia lakes area. Lower Virginia is way shallower than it was in the early 1990's! Back then you could catch Giant holdovers... not now. It's nothing more than a glorified trout holding tank for stockers. I saw 3 dead fish on the bottom. Caught and released 4 10-12 inches and 3 much smaller.

Got skunked in upper Virginia lake. Started out with nymphs on floating line , then switched to sink tip. No luck. Didn't try a full sink as my son got bored.

Hiked up to blue and cooney lake. Caught and released 4 rainbows at blue. Floating line with a big prince bead head, let it sink and just sit there. Then they'd strike.

No luck at cooney but didn't spend much time there as it was getting late.

The walker, both forks, and the little walker were still blown out.

Way more fishing pressure than the 1990's all through this area.