Rainbow trout stockings are scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 13 at all Urban Fishing Program waters. Fishing should be good to excellent for anglers using scented dough baits (such as PowerBait), worms or small trout lures. Trout stockings will continue every two weeks from November to March. All lakes were recently stocked with [...]

We have some impressive entries so far in the Urban Fishing Program 2008 Big Fish-of-the-Year contest.

Channel catfish - Topping the list is a 10.2 pound channel catfish caught by Shay Denniston from Lakeside Lake in Tucson.
Rainbow trout - A 5.25 pound incentive stocked rainbow trout [...]

The scheduled date for the first trout delivery of the winter season is Thursday, Nov. 13 for all lakes in the Phoenix and Tucson areas.  Trout averaging from 11-12 inches will be stocked at rates of 80-100 fish per lake surface acre for Urban Lakes and at lower rates for Urban Ponds.  Fish deliveries will [...]

PHOENIX – Get ready for lots of angling action because one hundred thousand rainbow trout will grace the Urban Fishing Program waters in the Valley of the Sun and Tucson areas this winter season, with the first installment coming Thursday, Nov. 13.
“In these challenging economic times, it’s terrific to have enjoyable [...]

TUCSON URBAN — Trout are scheduled for stocking for the first time on Thursday, Nov. 13.  The lakes have been loaded with catfish all fall with one last stocking the week of Oct. 27 – Nov. 1.  Stockings of hybrid and redear sunfish took place Oct. 23 at all lakes.  Finally, juvenile [...]

ACCESS NOTE: State Highway 261 is open to Big Lake and Crescent Lake, as well as most main Forest roads, including the road to Reservation Lake on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation.
State Highway 273 on the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest is undergoing reconstruction and realignment and the following closures are in [...]

CHEVELON LAKE – Fishing is fair to good. Brown trout should be staging at the mouth of Chevelon Creek. Brown trout typically spawn in November. Try big streamers such as brown, black or green wooly buggers, Yeager buggers, muddler minnows, and semi-seal leeches
This lake was stocked with 20,000 sub-catchable rainbow trout [...]

Note:  Northern Pike have been illegally stocked in Francis Short.  If you catch a Northern Pike at Francis Short Pond please REMOVE IT FROM THE POND.
WILLIAMS LAKES:
KAIBAB LAKE — Campground area is closed.  Fishing was fair over the weekend.
Where:kaibab lake
When:10/12/08
Caught:4 trout
Technique:3 on spinners and 1 on Power Bait
Comments:landed one [...]

ALAMO LAKE – Well folks, after three weeks off I’m here to tell yah there’s no place like home.  Although Alpine was nice, and it was cool to roam around the Nogales area, happiness is sitting in your own back yard contemplating how many fish you’re going to catch that day.  Right [...]

LAKE POWELL — By Wayne Gustaveson, Utah Division of Wildlife: LAKE POWELL – Courtesy Wayne Gustaveson, Utah Division of Wildlife (Wayne’s Words): It has been a great fishing season but this is my last regular report for the year. Next week we head up lake for annul gill net sampling, so I [...]