Lake Mohave water level is down but fishing is still good.
Bass and bluegill are on the bite. Try drop shot with plastics at about 25 feet for the bass. Bluegill will go after the “tried-and-true” worm on a hook.
You will find bass hanging out around the artificial fish habitats installed by the game and fish. They are at depths of 10-15 feet of water. Also look for submerged trees, bushes and shrub.
Lake Havasu is an excellent bass lake for Arizona anglers. With the cooler weather the bite has slowed but this just means you need to work your lures a little slower and deeper than normal. Use plastics, cranks, spinners and jigs. The fish are deep this time of year so topwaters and other floating baits you can put away until spring.
Sizes are ranging from 13 inches and up for largemouth bass. The skilled angler could hall in a 4 pounder. Smallmouth bass are also abundant in Lake Havasu, as well as striped bass. Stripers are in the size range of about 12-18 inches with an occasional 8 pounder waiting to be caught.
Bass aren’t the only species to be caught in Lake Havasu, channel cats are also a popular catch among Arizona anglers. Cats are ranging in the sizes or 3 - 10 pounds and are biting on anchovies, spam and mackerel.
Lake Pleasant is currently 75% full with large concentrations of shad along the shore. These large numbers of shad make for great bass fishing whether it’s along the shore with the largemouth or in open water with the stripers.
Look for boils. There will be a lot of them but they don’t last long and are unpredictable so be ready to strike at any moment.
Anglers are catching stripers around 4 pounds down lake. The stripers in the coves are hungrier and more aggressive but a little smaller. Use anchovies and shad.
Hit the drop shot for those largemouth bass. They are feisty but small. No use working the cranks.
Scotts Reservoir is nearly full and the fishing is fair. The boat ramp is accessible.
Anglers are catching rainbow trout on worms, Power Bait and salmon eggs.
Some nice sized (10-12 inches) largemouth bass are being caught on spinners, Super-Dupers and z-rays.
Channel catfish (20-25 inches) are biting on hot dogs and stink baits.
Scotts Reservoir is open to electric trolling motors only.
Fishing is good to fair at Fool Hollow Lake.
This is a great lake to take your kids on their first fishing trip. Bluegill and crappie are biting along the piers. Use small bits of night crawlers in a small hook with little weight. Fish about 1-3 feet under the pier.
There are catfish for the adults to catch but they are only ranging in the 1 to 2 pound range. Channel cats are being caught on worms and stink baits. Try fishing around rocks, trees, stumps and piers.
Shore anglers are catching rainbows on worms and green Power Bait. Go out to the southwest area of the lake for your best odds.
Spin anglers have been catching bass and walleyes on crankbait, plastic jigs with attached worms. Get out to the dam along the east arm of the lake for best opportunities to catch these fish.
Fishing at Clear Creek Reservoir is fair to good.
The warm water fish like bass, sunfish and catfish are biting.
If you prefer to go for the trout use worms, Power bait and salmon eggs.
For the bass, anglers are reporting hits on spinners, z-rays and crankbaits.
Fly anglers use wooly buggers and peacock ladies.
Willow Springs Lake was stocked last week so we can expect the action to go up a little. The lake has gone down about 3 feet but fishing is fair to good.
Willow Springs offers an angler a full day of fishing. In the early morning you can fish for trout which have been active until about 10 am at a water depth of about 15 feet. Try worms, power bait, salmon eggs or lures like z-rays and spinners. At mid-morning you can troll the lake with a cowbell and relax. Early afternoon is the best time to fish for bass and crappie. And in the evening, trout will be active again.
Fly anglers use peacock ladies, wooly worms, wooly buggers or black nymphs.
For best results: Troll with a down rigger at about 2mph at 35-40 feet in the old creek channel.
Out at Lake Powell, striped bass are still being caught in big numbers. Trolling seems to be working best. Just throw on a shallow-running crankbait and troll through a boil. You’ll sure to get a hookup each time. If the cranks don’t work for you, try plastics swim baits or a spoon.
Hite is still the best location for fishing. The full moon has slowed the boils to an evening only event. You can expect the slurps to begin around 2pm but they disappear quick. The best you can do is get out just before 2 and get into position. The most active areas for the boils are between buoy 129 and 131. This stretch has many surfacing schools.
For best results: Get out there and troll. This is the most effective method right now. The hardest part will be trying to predict the boils but they occur often enough to keep the fun going.
San Juan is also a nice fishing area but it’s not as active as Hite right now. If you’re out on the San Juan, Spencer’s Camp has always been a dependable fishing hole.
Jack Arch has been nice in the evenings and into the night.
If you go out to Piute Canyon, get out early, catch your fish and get out, otherwise you’ll be fighting with houseboats and jet skies the rest of the day. Piute Canyon is a hot spot for boils and the bite has been good.
Alamo Lake fishing is good this summer. The evening bite is picking up and the morning bite is going to about 10am. Plastics are working the best and being at about 20 feet of water and work your way into the shore.
Topwater lures seem to be working both in the mornings and evenings for largemouth bass. Try the jitter bug topwater.
For best results: Plastics, particularly, plastic lizards are what the largemouth bass want to bite. They seem to be most active in the evenings but the bite does end right at dark. Get out around 5pm.
At Lake Havasu the average day time water temp is between 86-92 degrees right now.
The striper bite is good to fair but they are only small to medium sizes. They will bite on anchovies, squid and mackerel at around 30 - 50 feet deep. Chumming is recommended because the striper schools are broken up due to the low number of shad this year.
Smallmouth bass have been hitting big time with a 1/4 - 3/8 ounce brown jigs, or hula grubs. Try around the rocky points in the main basin south to Standard Wash.
Catfish are also biting. They prefer anchovy this summer and they are most active at night. It’s recommended to go out to Topock Gorge where the sizes have been around 4 - 12 pounds.
For best results: Go for the smallmouth bass. Get out early in the morning and troll with chrome/blue Rat_L-Trap, pointers, or chug bugs. Spin casting is also working well if you don’t like the troll method.
