Arizona Lake Fishing

Spinners can be used to catch bass in just about any weather or water temp or time of year. Tournaments can be won fishing a spinner. They’re a great lure for spring and fall when the bass are feeding heavily as well as in winter when the water is cold. You can also fish them in the warmer waters of summer and just buzz them by the fish to entice them to bite.

It’s a good idea to keep several spinners in your box and keep spare blades and skirts on hand so you can test the waters and see what’s biting. But the go-to spinner in my box is always a 3/8th ounce spinnerbait with a #5 willowleaf and #3 Colorado blade. Have one of each in gold and silver. A chartreuse and white skirt and a 3″ white curly tail trailer.

Spinners in Warm Water

Warm water, at and above 60 degrees, means fast retrievals. When the water is warm, run the bait just under the surface fairly quickly until the blade just brakes the water. Then slow down and let the skirt flare.

When the water is warmer, and the feeding is slower, speed up your retrieval and try for reaction strikes by buzzing it right by the bass and letting it brake the water’s surface.

Spinners in Cool Waters

Cool waters, bellow 60 degrees, you want to slow it down. Use a heavier spinner, around 1/2 once. Get heavier and slower as the water gets colder. The added weight will allow you to fish deeper and slower.

Tips for Using Spinners

1. The clearness of the water will tell how quickly to run your lure. In clearer waters you can run it fairly fast but slow it down in murky waters.
2. Try bigger blades. Up to a #7 blade has caught fish and was a popular method a few years ago and still catches fish.
3. Try different colors of skirts and trailers if the fish aren’t biting.
4. Attach the lure with a clip and swivel to allow for quick and easy changing.

Spinners are one of my favorite lures. They are easy to use, easy to fish and you almost never lose a fish on one. The big hook seems to keep them on the hook effectively.

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Fishing Roosevelt Lake is a little slow this time of year. Mostly due to the fresh water flows from Tonto Creek and the Salt River but all this fresh water will pay in dividends this spring.

The Crappie Bite is OK

The crappie have moved into the main body of the lake but can easily be tracked down. The schools will look like upside down triangles on your graphs.

You can also find crappie hanging out under brush and fallen trees. They love wood.

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Keeping hydrated in Arizona is a challenge when you’re outside all day. Here are a few tips to help you keep hydrated before, during and after a day of fishing in Arizona.

1. Make sure you are drinking enough water leading up to your fishing trip.
2. The night before try to drink a little more than normal. This will help you maintain hydration during the fishing day.
3. The night before fill a 1 gallon personal water cooler half full and put it in the freezer. In the morning before you leave fill it up with water. Also fill and freeze smaller water bottles. You can put these in the cooler to help keep food cold. As it melts, you’re supplied with more water.
4. Take a camleback full of water, 1 per person.
5. Fill a second water cooler and leave it in you vehicle while fishing. This is for the end of the day or for emergencies.

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Green Valley Lake in Payson received 100 pounds of bonus rainbow trout for its first stocking of the season on Oct. 17, so anglers can expect fishing to be pretty good.

Green Valley Lake, use main street, is part of the Urban Fishing Program.

This special, season opening, stocking featured more 800 trout that includes an extra 25 percent more fish. Trout can be caught on small spinners and spoons, by fly fishermen using nymphs or wet flies, and by baits such as scented dough baits, worms or salmon eggs.  Remember to use lighter line in the 2- to 6-pound range, smaller hooks and a minimal amount of weight.

The Green Valley Lakes are stocked differently than the 19 other Urban Program waters in the Phoenix and Tucson areas.  Green Valley Lakes are stocked with rainbow trout for eight months of the year from mid October through early May at two week intervals.

Good populations of bass, crappie and sunfish can be found in this highly productive lake in Payson.

By the way, if you don’t have an urban fishing license or a Class A general fishing for 2007, you can get a smoking deal for the last two months of the year (November and December) when those two licenses are half price.

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