Mogollon Rim

Note: The Mogollon Rim streams are flowing high and are ice-covered. The lakes are ice-covered. All Forest roads are closed and snow packed, but are open to snowmobilers. Contact the US Forest Service’s Black Mesa office at (928) 535-4481 for information.
CHEVELON CANYON LAKE — All Forest roads [...]

North Central Region

NORTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS
Note: Most higher elevation lakes are ice covered. There is lots of snow pack. Most lakes should fill and spill.
WILLIAMS LAKES:
KAIBAB LAKE — Campground area is closed. Main parking lot and boat launch open for day use only.
CATARACT LAKE — Campground is closed.
CITY RESERVOIR — [...]

Southwestern Arizona

LAKE HAVASU – The striped bass are feeding best on cut anchovies fished on the bottom in about 25-40 feet of water off the main channel drop-offs. Use a 1/4 to 3/4-ounce sliding sinker depending on depth and current. Slowly trolling anchovies is also producing good limits.
The smallmouth bass [...]

Colorado River Northwest

LAKE POWELL – By Wayne Gustaveson. Lake elevation has been stable for a month. Walleye are just beginning to spawn. The males are ripe and off feed but the females are still eating and gearing up for spawning. Target clean rock structure to find spawning walleye aggregations. There are [...]

Central Arizona

URBAN LAKES — All lakes and ponds in the Phoenix and Tucson areas will be stocked with 15-20 inch channel catfish on Friday, March 21. By the way, there are still lots of trout to be caught, so you can go for them both.
All lakes and ponds in the [...]

Arizona’s best Fishing in 25 Years?
Is Arizona really going to experience the best fishing in 25 years or more?
Come out to the Arizona Game and Fish Department Expo 2008 on March 29-30 at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility and find out.
Fisheries Chief Kirk Young and Fishing Report Editor Rory Aikens will [...]

The cool cats are coming to play
It’s time to jazz up your fishing – the 14,000 pounds of cool cats are coming to play starting March 21. Channel catfish that is; the Urban lakes are where it’s at for these fun bottom fish.
By the way, there are still lots of trout to [...]

Rory’s Tip

First, sorry for last week’s fishing report glitches: one was a computer glitch, cyber ghost or whatever. The other was a combination computer issue and a glitch in the aging gray substance between my ears while running around getting things underway for the ISE Show. Sorry, I’ll try to make [...]

Southeastern Arizona

TUCSON URBAN — Trout will be stocked this week. We’ll be switching to catfish fairly soon.
TUCSON URBAN — Channel catfish are being stocked this week.
RIGGS FLAT —Lake is closed for the season.
CLUFF RANCH — No recent reports of success. For lake information call (928) 485-9430.
ROPER LAKE — [...]

White Mountains

Note: Streams are flowing high. Many lakes are spilling, are very turbid, and are ice-covered to ice-free. Higher elevation lakes are still ice-covered. Lower elevation lake conditions can change from day to day and have unsafe ice. Forest roads are closed. State Highway 261 is closed to Big [...]