Send your fishing reports and pictures to BFishing@AZGFD.gov Veterans Oasis Lake (Chandler) My daughter Ava Rae Gonzales caught these fish at Veterans Oasis Park in Chandler last weekend. She is 4 years old and loves to fish. We were using samon peach PowerBait. More reports Angler Reports are intended to be direct from...
Send your fishing reports and pictures to BFishing@AZGFD.gov Hawley Lake Billy: Fished Hawley Lake today. Early afternoon. Rapala, 21 1/2 inch brown. Also, had to use 4-wheel drive all the way in cause the road is covered with snow in case people were wondering. More reports Angler Reports are intended to be...
The rainbow trout bite is doing well here on the Colorado River below Davis Dam. This time of year it seems that spinners and PowerBait are working the best. Our local anglers Mike Merritt and our newest now local angler Mike Selby (above) were fishing from shore in the Rotary...
The cheat sheet to some good winter fishing, our Winter Fishing Forecast, just went “live.” See the forecast. A few other options: The forecast for winter trout fishing on Community waters this weekend is good. Our “Core” Community waters are being stocked with rainbow trout and water temperatures have been in...
Winter fishing conditions continue to dominate angler discussions regarding Roosevelt Lake. Dropping ambient and water temperatures, wind and big swings in barometric pressure are all contributing to reports of poor to fair fishing conditions. The Roosevelt Lake water temperature is in the mid to high 50s with a clear downward...
Editor’s Note: This is the the final of five “things we learned” from our 4-year study to investigate the fate of rainbow trout and Apache trout stocked into several of Arizona’s popular stream trout fisheries. As part of this project, AZGFD biologists conducted nearly 5,000 angler interviews on six different...
Roosevelt Lake — Fishing Rating: Good Lake temperatures are in the mid 60s. Water levels should remain steady as SRP is pulling water from the Verde system. Hopefully we see plenty of winter precipitation and snowpack to raise the water level for the coming year. See the current lake elevation. Despite...
Arivaca Lake — Fishing Rating: Fair Fishing in the winter can be slow at Arivaca Lake as the fish go deeper and spend less time feeding. Although early mornings and late evenings are still going to be the most productive times, anglers should find fish to be active throughout the day....
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COLORADO RIVER NORTHWEST Colorado River (Davis Dam to I-40 Bridge) — Fishing rating: Good Flows fluctuate quickly in the stretch of the river. Many anglers prefer not to navigate the river when less than three units are being released from Davis Dam. Check the projected releases before your trip: https://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4000/hourly/DavisParkerSchedules.pdf. Trout...
Yep, it’s trout! Rainbows, that is, brought to us special from the Willow Beach Hatchery. We are getting some great fish this year. Our federal hatchery is providing all anglers in this area with some nice trout. Our visiting angler John Beigh from Ohio stopped in to share his catch....
Ashurst Lake — Fishing Rating: Good Fishing at Ashurst is usually good until the lake gets ice cover or the Forest Service closes the road. Anglers can catch nice size holdover rainbow trout on lures such as Rooster Tails, Joe’s Flies and small spoons. Fly anglers should be successful using...
MOGOLLON RIM Bear Canyon Lake — Rating: Fair During a normal winter, vehicle access to Bear Canyon Lake is impossible due to heavy snow and road closures. The US Forest Service normally closes the 300 Road/Rim Road after the first significant snowfall. If access to Bear Canyon Lake remains open,...
This is still some great weather for trout fishing at the mid- to low-elevation lakes where we stock trout. See the stocking schedules below. Water temperatures in our desert impoundments have dropped to 60 degrees and below. This is about the point (mid-50s) that the metabolism of bass slows. A...
The major cold fronts in northern Arizona have significantly impacted the fishing conditions. Rim Country anglers have been fortunate to have had stable weather conditions which allowed them to enjoy excellent fishing longer this year. Their luck ran out when the cold fronts and wildly swinging barometric pressures arrived a...
Send your fishing reports and pictures to BFishing@AZGFD.gov The water temperature at Lake Pleasant Wednesday topped out at 60 degrees, with morning air temperatures at 43 degrees. Guide Gary Senft targeted largemouth bass Wednesday — in 25 mph winds during the early morning. Fishing from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., he and a fishing...
There are several reports that fishing in the lower 3 mile walk-in section of Lees Ferry — Arizona’s premier blue-ribbon trout fishery below Glen Canyon Dam — has been excellent. Lees Ferry Anglers, for one, rates walk-in fishing at a 6/10 and the upriver fishing a 7/10. Walk-in fishing report...
We’ve cracked the 50s. While high country anglers long ago experienced water temperatures below 60 degrees, a report of water temperatures cracking the 50s has come from Bartlett Lake in the Tonto National Forest, where temps on Friday were 59 degrees. See the latest lake levels from SRP. “Fishing was...
Arizona Game and Fish Department personnel conducted a spot-check electrofishing survey on Redondo Lake near Yuma on Nov. 28. During pair of 15-minute electrofishing sites, 24 largemouth bass were caught, including a very nice 19.3-inch, 3.7-pound fish (right-above), and a 22.7-inch, 8.2-pound lunker largemouth (left-above)! Overall the population appears to...
