Send your fishing reports and pictures to BFishing@AZGFD.gov Bartlett Lake Derrick S.: I wanted to share my fishing report. Last night I caught 7 fish all from the bank at Bartlett by the north boat launch. I used a dropshot setup with a 5-inch baby bluegill colored worm. Last Saturday I caught...
Send your fishing reports and pictures to BFishing@AZGFD.gov Frances Short Pond Jim G. of Flagstaff caught this nice channel cat, just under 5 pounds, at Francis Short Friday, April 19. Caught on a black beadhead wooly bugger — what a surprise!! More reports Angler Reports are intended to be direct from anglers...
Send your fishing reports and pictures to BFishing@AZGFD.gov Saguaro Lake Jim W.: A 6.3-pound largemouth released back into Saguaro Lake I caught on a gold Kastmaster. Old Joe and I also caught 162 yellow bass in 4 hrs of mid-day fishing. Enjoyed a fish dinner last night from the dozen largest yellows....
Send your fishing reports and pictures to BFishing@AZGFD.gov Upper Lake Mary Troy G.: Both pike and walleye caught with a hard-jointed swimbait. The spring bite is on. I caught my personal best 5.09-pound walleye and several nice pike in just 3 hours. More reports Angler Reports are intended to be direct from...
Now’s the time to fish northern Arizona. Typically by late May or early June, as temperatures warm up and lake levels drop, water quality diminishes and conditions will be unsuitable for stocking fish. Bass, pike, catfish, and crappie fishing are the best during the summer, but now is the ideal...
5 years after world-record redear sunfish catch, invasive quagga mussels considered a likely contributor to monster sizes of these sunfish at Lake Havasu PHOENIX — Have the redear sunfish at Lake Havasu really gone quagga crazy? Have these panfish that really can fill a pan, and are widely regarded as...
Send your fishing reports and pictures to BFishing@AZGFD.gov Bartlett Lake Neil L.: I took my daughters to Bartlett for a couple hours yesterday (Sunday, April 14) and they caught about 10 bass on spinnerbaits. I also got some phone video of a mule deer buck swimming from an island to the main...
Lake level: 1,122 with releases of 25 cfs Water temperature: mid-60s Mark Knapp from Alamo Lake State Park said crappie fishing is fair and starting to pick up. Seasoned anglers are averaging 8-10 crappie daily flipping minnows into bushes or by the buoy line. Crappie are scattered. Both ramps are open....
Bartlett and Roosevelt lakes in the Tonto National Forest are two possible hot spots for weekend bass fishing. Expect a big wave of spawning bass during this weekend’s full moon and water temperatures in the mid-60s. Here are 5 best baits to throw, according to guide and Bass Pro Gary...
Highways 273 and 261 to Big Lake are open and the ice has been completely off the lake for a week. Big Lake should be a high country hot spot this spring. Rick from the Big Lake Store said the store may be open by Friday and almost certainly open...
Runoff has finally quit and the lakes have stopped spilling. That means that stocking of the lakes has begun. Folks are catching fish on lures fished slowly on the trout lakes. See the stocking schedule. Williams lakes KAIBAB LAKE — Kaibab Lake is full. Lake was stocked with rainbow trout...
Lake level: 1,696 feet, 93% Water temperature: 63-65 degrees After seasonably low water temperatures during the winter due in part to increased run-off, water temperatures are back to a point where fishing for largemouth and striped bass should take off. See a video fishing report from around this time last...
Angler Reports / Colorado River Waters / Colorado River-northwest / Colorado River-southwest / Fishing Waters
Send your fishing reports and pictures to BFishing@AZGFD.gov Colorado River waters Our area fishing is still doing OK — we have trout in the Community Park area. You will need to walk the shore a bit to find that spot where the trout hold up. Using PowerBait or nightcrawlers seems to work...
The first trout stockings of the spring/summer took place this week at Fool Hollow Lake, Show Low Lake, and the Greer lakes (Bunch, Tunnel, River). As trout stockings ramp up, let’s take a look at the five things we learned from our 4-year study on the fate of stocked trout:...
Once again on Friday, March 29, Daniel G. awoke to the cacophony of line zinging and fishing bells jingling. Sleeping with the back seats down in his SUV around 8 a.m., and near the shoreline of Upper Lake Mary, the fishing rods were in the front seat, pointing out the passenger...
See SRP’s daily water report for the Central region BARTLETT LAKE (97% full, 1,796 feet) — Water temperature has topped out around 64 degrees (52 degrees during the morning). Guide Gary Senft fished the lake 2 days ago and primarily caught postspawn largemouth bass with dropshot-rigged morning dawn/chartreuse Roboworms and...
Send your fishing reports and pictures to BFishing@AZGFD.gov Mogollon Rim lakes (Willow Springs and Black Canyon) Willow Springs Lake Aaron B.: Made a quick day trip up to the Rim on Sunday to see how the lakes are coming along this spring. All I can say is it was GLORIOUS to see...
Send your fishing reports and pictures to BFishing@AZGFD.gov Saguaro Lake Jim W.: Great yellow bass fishing at Saguaro this last Friday with friend old Joe. Found them up in 10 ft. of water in back of coves throughout the lake amongst the weeds. Blue/silver Kastmaster did the trick catching 73 yellows and...
