Arizona Lake Fishing

Rainbows have been stocked and fishing is on!

Use power bait with a slip sinker or a bobber. Worms are a trusty standby for Tempe Town Lake and will catch just about everything in the lake.

Try Everything … from corn to spinners

Some anglers have walked away happy with a full bag limit using only canned corn on a bobber, others are using power bait or worms. It’s not that the fish are biting like mad, it’s that they are being finicky. Some will bite corn other’s want a flashy spinner. Be flexible and patient and you will go home a happy angler.

Knoll Lake has been consistently good fishing all summer for both shore fishing and boat fishing.

Shore fishing at Knoll Lake is good and you can expect to catch small to medium sized stock trout. Use orange, yellow or green Power Bait on a hook and bobber. Worms always work too, so keep them handy.

Out on the water in a boat, float tube or inflatable, fishing is a little better. You can expect to catch a little bit bigger trout even though, you have fewer bites. If your lucky you might get a big german brown.

Blue Ridge has very little shore fishing opportunities. If you don’t have a boat or floating device, I recommend not going to Blue Ridge. That said, it is a beautiful body of water with decent fishing.

Most anglers are using orange power bait, fished just 2 feet off the bottom. You can also try yellow/black rooster tails, black/red panther martins or neon yellow z-rays. Use the spinners in the afternoon and let sink about 10-12 feet and retrieve in a slow moderate pattern.

For best results: Get over near the dam with orange power bait. Fish 2 feet off the bottom between the outhouse and the dam.

Black Canyon Lake is almost full, the boat ramp is accessible and the fishing is fair.

Green and yellow power bait seems to be working well for most anglers, on shore or in a boat. You can also try, salmon eggs, spinners, or wooly buggers.

For best results: Get out on the water at first light. Troll with a cowbell and a worm on the hook.

Bear Canyon Lake, like Chevelon Lake, is a hike-in lake. There is a short but steep trail that’s winds down to the water. There is nice shore access for the shore fisherman but Bear Canyon Lake is best experienced with a float tube, inflatable or canoe.  You can use an electric motor but not gas motors.

The fishing is fair to good out at Bear Canyon Lake. You best shot at a catch is at first and last light. Just about anything used to catch trout works here, from salmon eggs, to z-rays and power bait and zug bugs.

The water temp is getting warmer in the basin of Lake Havasu and the larger fish are beginning to move into the cooler water at Willow Beach.

The trout stocking takes place every Friday giving shore fisherman a 50/50 shot at going home happy. But most of the success has been around the new pier. Try Power Bait, green Power Worms, or salmon eggs.
For best results: Get out on the water early. The action seems to be dieing off by 7:30am. Use green Power Bait on a hook with a small sinker about 2-3 feet above the hook.

The bite from stripers has been picking up as well.

The road is open at Willow Springs Lake and the lake is full. The boat launch accessible and Willow Springs Lake allows only electric trolling motors and/or 10 hp gas motors.

The lake has been stocked with nice sized trout and anglers are catching them on lures. Trout have also been active at the surface down to 15 feet. Try worms, power bait and salmon eggs on a small hook. For lures try z-rays, spinners and rapalas. For flies try wooly worms, wooly bugers, peacock ladies and prince nymphs.

For best results try trolling with a lure.

After a long winter, Blue Ridge is open and accessible. The lake is also full and spilling over.

This lake is best accessed with a boat as there is very little shore to launch your line. However, there are a few great fishing holes deep into the lake where you can tie up your boat and do a little shore fishing. Blue Ridge is a popular lake for float tubes, kayaks, and canoes.

Trout fishing is picking up. Expect larger hold-over trout.

For best results try trolling with spinners or fishing off shore with corn, worms or power bait.

Woods Canyon is stocked weekly with catchable size rainbow trout.

Anglers are catching hold-over trout around 1.5 pounds. The trout have also been active at the surface down to 10 feet. Try worms, power bait, and salmon eggs. For lures try spinners like z-rays, super dupers and small spoons. For fly fishing try wooly buggers, peacock ladies, and nymphs.

For best results try blown up worms fishing from the bottom. Trolling with a KastMaster or Panther Martin is working as well.

Anglers are catching their limits out at Bear Canyon Lake. It was just stocked last week and fishing is pretty good.

Bear Canyon Lake is a hike-in only lake. The trail down to the lake is short but steep and winding. Keep this in mind for the way back up after a day of fishing.

The lake is best accessed with float tubes and other small carry-in water craft. However, there is good shore fishing access.

Try worms, power bait, salmon eggs. You can also try lures like spinners, z-rays and super dupers. For fly fishing use wooly worms, wooly buggers, peacock ladies, and zug bugs.

For best results try a yellow Rooster Tail, Berkley Gulp or a silver spoon.

This lake is open to electric trolling motors only.