Lake level: 446.5 feet Average daytime water temp is 54 degrees. Stripers are hitting live shad and artificial baits like the Pointer 128s, green-tailed Bass Assassins & 3/4-ounce Rat-L-Traps in shad/white patterns fished around the island and mouth of the river....
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 one of the better fish species to eat, found a surplus of invasive quagga mussels to munch? A mystery remains: Redear...
Lake Havasu continues to be ranked as one of the top places to fish for bass in the country! The largemouth and smallmouth bass fishing should continue to be great. Fishing was has been pretty good all year: Tournament anglers have needed five-fish bags weighing...
The largemouth and smallmouth Bass fishing should continue to be great. This year’s electrofishing survey conducted by the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife showed abundant bass with an adult population that should...
John Galbraith of BassTackleMaster.com reported the average daytime water temp has been running around 54-58 degrees. The daytime striper bite is good for 2-pound class fish using cut anchovies. Those wanting to get “bit” by the bigger stripers must fish during...
Imagine being out at night on the shores of Cattail Cove State Park. Everything is calm and peaceful, and then, in an instant, the quiet night turns chaotic. Our friend Jimmy had that experience on Thursday, Oct. 19 when he hooked a channel catfish in Lake Havasu. He...
The striped bass action is good with boils of 1 to 3 stripers chasing shad in the morning and late afternoon hours. Trolling super spooks, sassy shads, and Rat-L-Traps in white chrome/blue is working best. Black Rock cove north to the entrance to the river has been...
Caught a tiger trout, yet? Try fishing the shorelines at Woods Canyon Lake. Many of our fish biologists were on the water at Woods Canyon, located on the Mogollon Rim, electrofishing at from 7 p.m. to 4 a.m. — Wednesday through today — and caught more than 100 tiger...
Lake level 448.67 feet, 82 degrees. This striper bite good in the a.m. hours from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. from the mouth of the river south to Calif Bay. Boils have been occurring sporadically during this time. Troll Rat L Traps or Pointer 128 minnow plugs in areas where the...
New research shows a link between use of two pesticides, rotenone and paraquat, and Parkinson's disease. People who used either pesticide developed Parkinson’s disease approximately 2.5 times more often than non-users. Rotenone, regularly used by the Corp of...
Lake Level 448.59 The striper bite is good using cut anchovies -- still fishing from the Crazyhorse campground north to the Entrance to the River/Sandbar. Be sure to throw out extra chum to attract these schools of pre-spawn stripers. Trolling Pointer 100s or 128s...
Lake Level 449.07 Striper fishing is good if you can locate the schools of shad around the island, chalk cliffs and Winsor State Park. Green-tailed bass assassins rigged on 3/8- to ½-oz leadheads have been producing quality fish around sunup and sundown when cast...
LAKE HAVASU – Aug. 5 report from John Galbraith of BassTackleMaster.com in Lake Havasu City: Lake level is 448.79 feet. The striper bite is fair with some a.m. boils of stripers chasing schools of shad. Use shad style baits such as a Pointer 100s and 128s, White...
Lake Level is 88.87 percent full with average temperature of 56 degrees. Lake Havasu is a 19,300-acre impoundment on the Colorado River, formed by Parker Dam. It is located along the Arizona-California border and is approximately twenty-five miles long, with a...
Water and fishing is heating up, as you would expect. Nothing spectacular, but this warm weather is changing the equation some. Winter storms can reverse this trend, so.... If this weather pattern continues, it would not be surprising to find some leading-edge bass on...
Fishing for smallmouth bass over two pounds in size is expected to be good to excellent. In addition, redear sunfish should also be good in the pound-plus sizes. The Parker Strip is well known for its smallmouth bass fishing, especially in the area from the dam to...
LAKE HAVASU -- Lake Havasu Fishing Report courtesy John Galbraith of BassTackleMaster.com, Lake Havasu City, early October. Fair afternoon striper bite from Winsor State Park south to Calif Bay/Thompson Bay using diving baits like the white Rat-L-Traps, Sassy Shads,...
LAKE HAVASU -- Lake Havasu Fishing Report courtesy John Galbraith of BassTackleMaster.com, Lake Havasu City, early October. Fair afternoon striper bite from Winsor State Park south to Calif Bay/Thompson Bay using diving baits like the white Rat-L-Traps, Sassy Shads,...
LAKE HAVASU -- Lake Havasu Fishing Report courtesy John Galbraith of BassTackleMaster.com, Lake Havasu City. Fair afternoon striper bite from Winsor State Park south to Calif Bay/Thompson Bay using diving baits like the white Rat-L-Traps, Sassy Shads, Pointer 128s and...
LAKE HAVASU -- Lake Havasu Fishing Report courtesy John Galbraith of BassTackleMaster.com, Lake Havasu City. Lake Level 448.73. Fair afternoon striper bite from Winsor State Park south to Calif Bay/Thompson Bay using diving baits like the white Rat-L-Traps, Sassy...