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 lakes are ice-covered to ice-free and are slightly turbid to turbid. Forest roads are closed. State Highway 261 is closed to Big Lake [...]

Mogollon Rim

Note: The Mogollon Rim streams are flowing high and some have ice-cover. Most lakes are ice-covered, except for Chevelon Canyon Lake. Most forest roads are closed and snow packed, but are open to snowmobilers. Contact the U.S. Forest Service’s Black Mesa office at (928) 535-4481 for the latest [...]

North Central Region

Note: Some lakes ice-free, are open and accessible. Others might be ice-free but the roads are either covered in snow, or still closed. With the warming weather, the situation can sometimes change daily. As lakes become accessible, we will try to update to fishing report on the department’s [...]

Southwestern Arizona

LAKE HAVASU – Striped bass are in their pre-spawning stages and will likely start their full spawn sometime within the next month due to the steady rise in water temperature. These fish are temperature specific with an optimal water temperature of 63 degrees and will begin to migrate to their [...]

Colorado River Northwest

LAKE POWELL – By Wayne Gustaveson. Finally, the lake is starting to warm and consequently fishing has improved. Do not expect super fast fishing that happens when bass spawn or stripers stage. The expectation now is that the fishing excursions will be rewarded with a few fish instead of [...]

Central Arizona

URBAN LAKES – Spring fishing is HOT! HOT! HOT! Don’t wait another day to go fishing. Fishing activity at Urban Fishing Program lakes and ponds is excellent with anglers reporting nice stringers of catfish, aggressive bluegill and hybrid sunfish, some nice bass and a few remaining trout. [...]

Arizona Game and Fish Department partners with Anglers’ Legacy

ALEXANDRIA, VA (April 2, 2008) – The Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation (RBFF) today announced a new partnership with the Arizona Game and Fish Department to promote the Anglers’ Legacy program.
The department collected Anglers’ Legacy pledges at the Arizona Game and Fish Department 2008 Outdoor Exposition held [...]

Rory’s Tip

Hot off the presses:

According to the Forest Service, the road into Willow Springs Lake on the Mogollon Rim should open on Friday.
We are stocking the upper reach of the Lower Salt (Water Users) with trout on Friday at noon – come join us (we’ll try to get some media out).
The road is open to [...]

Trout anglers getting an 11-mile fishing bonus

PHOENIX – Trout anglers are getting an 11-mile trout fishing bonus on the Lower Salt River close to the Valley of the Sun early this spring thanks to abundant snowpack and excellent runoff for a change this year.
On Friday, April 4 at noon the Arizona Game and Fish Department‘s [...]