At press time, Arizona Game & Fish had brought in three fully loaded hauling trucks with 24,500 pounds of catfish destined for the Core program waters. Additional catfish were destined for Lynx, Fain, Deadhorse State Park, and Garret Tank.
At press time, the lake was still filling rapidly but the bigger news was that stripers were feeding on the surface. The ultimate goal of many freshwater anglers is to fish a striper boil
When the bite is as hot as the weather, it’s easy to forget the essentials. I was pre-fishing Roosevelt Lake one summer and we’d been catching fish all day long.
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Does trudging up the ramp to fetch your truck and trailer leave you huffing and puffing?
Carp are not the most attractive fish in the lake, and many anglers actively dislike them. They are considered a nuisance and worse because they eat the eggs of other fish and they are constantly stirring up the mud in the shallows, which also interferes with the spawning processes of other fish.
As John Anderson says, most fishermen looking for stripers are on the water at first light. He suggests topwater bails, shad patterns, and clear baits with just a bit of blue or silver on the back.