Best Fishing in Arizona

Colorado River

 

Quintessential tailwater. Huge rainbows. Best access by boat. Sinuous, cold, and very green from deep and life-giving beds of aquatic mosses, the Colorado flows past 1,000 foot cliffs of rugged.

Marble Canyon , AZ - Fly-Fishing

Lake Havasu

 

Short Take: 25,000 acres with 50 additional miles of river; clear and dingy water, rocky points, shoreline vegetation, weeds, current, one tributary. Visitors come to this scenic Colorado River

Lake Havasu City , AZ - Fishing

Lake Mead

 

Short Take: 163,000 acres; high desert lake with clear and muddy water, large tributaries, canyons, coves, rocks, aquatic vegetation, flooded trees and bushes. More and more visitor.

Boulder City , NV - Fishing

Lake Powell

  
Short Take: 161,390 acres; deep clear water, steep-walled canyons, rocky points, some flooded brush, no vegetation. Of all the bass lakes in the United States, none truly compares to Lake.

Page , AZ - Fishing

Arizona Fishing Map
Lake Pleasant - largemouth bass

Children under the age of six: No consumption

 

Women of child-bearing age and children between 6-16 years old: One 8 oz. fish meal per month

 

All other adult women: One 8 oz. fish meal per month unless a doctor supports a higher consumption rate.

 

Adult men: Five 8 oz. fish meals per month.

Roosevelt Lake - largemouth
bass and channel catfish

Children under the age of six: No consumption

 

Women of child-bearing age and children between 6-16 years old: One 8 oz. fish meal per month

 

All other adult women: One 8 oz. fish meal per month unless a doctor supports a higher consumption rate.

 

Adult men: Five 8 oz. fish meals per month.