04-22-2010, 10:47 PM
Sand Hollow is awesome - I hate the weekends there though. A very popular lake that isn't big enough to escape from all the boats when it is busy. The fishing though, is off the hook. You can have a 50 fish day there in the warmer months, and shore fishing is extremely successful.
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Lake Mead has a very good, but highly pressured, bass population- largemouth and smallmouth. And both can be caught from shore this time of year.
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Shore camping can be hard at mead without a boat to get you to a secluded spot though.
I just got home from a camping trip to Lake Havasu. It only takes about 2 hours and 45 minutes to get there (from Henderson) and it has friggin awesome bass fishing. It boasts a population of smallmouth bass that exceed 4 pounds, with big numbers of 2 lb fish. The largemouth there are also well fed and plentiful. The south end of the lake really has amazing cover and outstanding fishing. In my opinion, the best fishing within 3 hours of here. They even have big flathead catfish (30lbers and up, I am told) and red ear sunfish that top 3 lbs. Plenty of good tent camping, too.
For a change of scenery, you can drive down to Willow Beach for world class striper fishing. Lake Mead is known for numbers of fish, but Willow hold quality stripers. Big rainbow trout-imitating swimbaits and AC-Plugs are the norm here, and this is a good time of year to target double-digit fish. This is within 90 minutes of town, including a scenic drive over Hoover Dam. (I don't know about camping at willow.)
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This monster was taken just a little bit downstream of willow beach-
[left]All Tackle and Arizona record striped Bass [/left]
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[left]Jeff Smith holding his 67-lb. 1 oz. new all-tackle Arizona record striped bass taken from the Colorado River on August 15, 1997
- Lure - A.C. Plug[/left]
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Good luck out there. It may be a desert here, but there are fish everywhere.
The Whizzle
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Lake Mead has a very good, but highly pressured, bass population- largemouth and smallmouth. And both can be caught from shore this time of year.
[inline "Mead Camping '09 051.jpg"]
[inline "Lake Mead Bass 008.jpg"]
[inline "July 020.jpg"]
[inline "Lake Mead Bass 002.jpg"]
Shore camping can be hard at mead without a boat to get you to a secluded spot though.
I just got home from a camping trip to Lake Havasu. It only takes about 2 hours and 45 minutes to get there (from Henderson) and it has friggin awesome bass fishing. It boasts a population of smallmouth bass that exceed 4 pounds, with big numbers of 2 lb fish. The largemouth there are also well fed and plentiful. The south end of the lake really has amazing cover and outstanding fishing. In my opinion, the best fishing within 3 hours of here. They even have big flathead catfish (30lbers and up, I am told) and red ear sunfish that top 3 lbs. Plenty of good tent camping, too.
For a change of scenery, you can drive down to Willow Beach for world class striper fishing. Lake Mead is known for numbers of fish, but Willow hold quality stripers. Big rainbow trout-imitating swimbaits and AC-Plugs are the norm here, and this is a good time of year to target double-digit fish. This is within 90 minutes of town, including a scenic drive over Hoover Dam. (I don't know about camping at willow.)
[inline "Super Stripers at Willow 10-30-09 003.jpg"]
[inline "Super Stripers at Willow 10-30-09 011.jpg"]
This monster was taken just a little bit downstream of willow beach-
[left]All Tackle and Arizona record striped Bass [/left]
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[/left][left]Jeff Smith holding his 67-lb. 1 oz. new all-tackle Arizona record striped bass taken from the Colorado River on August 15, 1997
- Lure - A.C. Plug[/left]
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[/left]Good luck out there. It may be a desert here, but there are fish everywhere.
The Whizzle
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