Arizona Fishing

Is the trout there stocked yearly?

 

In phx and tucson I believe yes. Up here in the mountains the answer is no

 

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Gotcha, wasn't sure how warm it got. I know come summer we are supposed to stop fishing in the plains and stick to higher elevations because of the lower temps.

In kansas they stocked em once a year and then come summer all the trout would die...seemed dumb to even stock them

 

Most lakes that are stocked in Phoenix and tucson are urban lakes (very small park lakes) temp controlled and aired. The lakes in the mountains usually freeze over and are pretty hard to get to unless you take a snow mobile or a tacoma haha but this winter was terrible for snow.

 

Here's the summer AZ trout stocking schedule (PDF download)

 

+ 1 for you adam. Good man

 

Thank you sir. We like to camp at Knoll Lake but you have to hit it in June/July to get the nonstop trout fishing. It really dies off after that as the lake level starts to drop in August/Sept. Going in April to the Rim lakes is the best time to catch those big holdover German Browns with some trolling rigs or flies.

 

Yeah I will be out there knoll is one of my favorites

 

We really hauled in the crawdads last year at Knoll. I brought out 8 good traps and we did a huge crawdad boil and I brought back bags full of leftovers for my sister's family. They were a big crop, too, with some that had claw meat. Gotta hit em in July/August. In June we couldn't keep the trout off our hooks.

 

Is that AC in the red shirt in the last pic?
Looks like my buddy!

 

Crawdad are easy to grab out there. To bad camping is going to be shut down very early this year to dispersed camping and the knoll campsites are not made for rtt haha

 

I was at Knoll over the 4th of July weekend last year and the fishing was fantastic. Watching garter snakes try to eat the trout on the stringer was amusing as well.

 

Seems as tho knoll is a popular lake. Always pretty empty when im there

 

Never really fished at a lake. Only local parks.

 

Time to switch that up.

 

Yep!! Need a new rod and reel have 3 bait casters but I want ti sell those

 

Bait casters are awesome when fishing from the boat when trying to get your lure/rubber worm or whatever close to the shore. I really need to get myself one.
Juan, whatcha got and what do you want for them?


I'm going on a week long backpacking/fishing trip beginning of June. Going to be catching small mouth. Really excited.

 

Where you going?

 

Text me and ill send some pics