12-10-2009, 03:00 PM
You are the second person from New Zealand with that question. Lake Mead has carp, catfish, small and large mouth bass, sunfish , and stripers. It depends on what you want to catch. You said something that you would like to go for size. I know carp are easy to catch from shore in the summer as that they are jumping out of the water all over but I am not sure about in the winter. Lake Mead can be a frustrating lake to learn how effectively produce fish.
Stripers are schooling fish so when they are biting they are biting other wise good luck. To find stripers you need to find the shad. To find shad you need to find the birds. But all of this isn't easy for shore fishing.
There are many fishing docs/piers located around lake mead. These will usually be crowded on weekends all day and night. Not as bad in the wee hours of the day tho as that is when only the serious fisher men are out and not every one and their little kids.
For shore fishing you can use a basic pole from wally world for just about any fish. You would have be really lucky to get anything too big to come your way that could actually snap your line.
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Stripers are schooling fish so when they are biting they are biting other wise good luck. To find stripers you need to find the shad. To find shad you need to find the birds. But all of this isn't easy for shore fishing.
There are many fishing docs/piers located around lake mead. These will usually be crowded on weekends all day and night. Not as bad in the wee hours of the day tho as that is when only the serious fisher men are out and not every one and their little kids.
For shore fishing you can use a basic pole from wally world for just about any fish. You would have be really lucky to get anything too big to come your way that could actually snap your line.
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