FISHING

Quality of life is measured by amount of time spent fishing. Stripers have moved out of the main channel and toward the backs of canyons. The move indicates that the Shad food source has been...

Ashurst Lake is a small lake located on the Anderson Mesa 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Flagstaff. It is one of the few natural lakes in the state of Arizona, the bulk of...

Meeting The Challenge Of Rocky Lakes (Or Not) By Kim Elridge I’m heading off for a long weekend of camping, fishing, and geocaching today. One of my favorite lakes near Flagstaff is Ashurst Lake. Just looking...

Youth At Its Best First Striper Ryan Chamberlain, 5-yr-old from La Palma CA, caught his first striper using a krocodile spoon jigged in 50 feet of water in Padre Bay. This was the first trip to...

If I had a bass lure for every time I observed (or heard of) a beginner fisherman catching a huge bass the first time he or she graced the waters with an odd fishing...

Arizona Game and Fish Department cautioned traveling anglers and boaters recently against inadvertently importing a disease that causes erratic behavior in trout. Whirling Disease, caused by Myxobolus cerebralis, is a microscopic parasite that attacks trout....

Lake Elevation: 3628 Water Temperature 77-80 F   The theme for this report is "good fishing". That takes on different connotations in Lake Powell when compared with most other fisheries. Anglers at Powell usually catch large...

Maricopa County, AZ Apache Apache Lake is 45 miles east of Phoenix and is created by the Horse Mesa dam. Apache Lake is one of four artificial reservoirs created along the Salt River in central Arizona as...