This is what we all live in Arizona for.  85 degree temps, water temps warming to the 60’s, and fish moving up in force into the shallows!  The spring bite is here!

Lake Pleasant is turning on strong!  White bass and Stripers are starting to stage.  The bite is still inconsistent, but the good days are awesome, with large numbers starting to show.  Cut bait and spoons are the best bets for the deeper fish, and small jerkbaits and clouser minnows are the best bet for the shallow fish.  There continues to be a decent crappie bite in the upper end of the lake on minnows and little crankbaits fished around brush.  The largemouth bass are also starting to stage up in the shallows, and with our water clarity being almost 30 feet in some areas, the site fishing in setting up to be banner this year.  The big females are moving up!  the next few weeks should be excellent!!!  Non-bedding bass are vulnerable to jerkbaits and little swimbaits.  The bedding fish are munching jigs and dropshots.

 Roosevelt Lake continues to kick out great numbers of fish.  Largemouth, Smallmouth, and crappie are all biting well.  Big numbers of bass are in the shallows.  Senkos, spinnerbaits, and bed fishing are all producing.  This lake has been hot for a while, and continues to kick it out!

Alamo Lake slowed a little this week, as the lake came up 4 feet overnight a few days ago, and positioned the bass a little funky.  With our warm weather, expect this lake to get back in action very quickly!

Deadhorse state park is still kicking out some great trout fishing up in the Sedona area.  Big numbers of rainbows are munching dry flies in this warmer weather.  Try small caddis or hare’s ear flies, and look for the schools of trout moving in and out of the shallows.

The urban Carp bite has been fantastic.  If you’ve ever thought of tangling in to a carp on the fly rod, this is the time of year to get out and do it!  We are seeing all the species, the common carp, grass carp, koi, goldfish, buffalo all up in the shallows, and accessible to sight fishing.

It’s spring!  It’s warm!  And the fishing is getting hot!  Get out here and enjoy while the getting is good!

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