as i recall, it was very easy to catch trout in the trout ponds. you would pay a couple of dollars, they would let you into the ponds area and give you a fishing rod and some bait.
my childhood friends and i thought about it and decided that it was too easy. how could they make the trout bite? the answer, we guessed, was that they were starving the fish so much that they felt hungry and bit anything offered to them.
i also have a dim recollection of the stagecoach trail being noticeably parallel to and somewhat close to the monterey highway at some places.
other than this, it was a fun park for young kids.
Not roofies?
I remember going there as a small boy and fishing for my very first time. The thrill I got actually catching something led to a lifetime of fishing. So being easy to catch something there was a very good thing for me, regardless of how oppressed the fish were.