Category Archives: Fishing Reports
Lake Powell Fishing Report April 18, 2012 – Wayne Gustavson
Photo Caption: Autumn and dad Dave McQuitty caught a 5-lb Striper trolling with a deep diving white bomber near mud line at Hite. Stripers are fat and healthy but the big news is about large and smallmouth bass moving into the shallows to spawn. Lake Powell Fish Report – April 18, 2012 Lake Elevation: 3635 Water Temperature 55-65 F By: Wayne Gustaveson Bass Return to Beds It is the third week of April and true to form bass are returning to the shallows to Read More +
Lake Powell Fishing 4-15-12
Jarrod with a nice 7lb. striper Trolling shad rapp in 15′ of water – Warm Creek 4-12-12 John with a nice 2lb. Crappie at Lake Powell plus 7 nice stripers 4-14-12 Justin (Jarrod’s Dad) with a nice striper 4-12-12
Lake Powell Fishing Report – by Wayne Gustaveson 4-11-12
Photo caption: Wayne and Mark Gustaveson had a fun day fishing for bass. Water is warming allowing bass to move into shallow water to spawn. The fish can be readily seen and caught. Bass Fishing will be great for spawning bass for the next 3 weeks Lake Powell Fish Report – Lake Elevation: 3635 Water Temperature 52-60 F By: Wayne Gustaveson Fishing is fantastic as long as you are fishing for bass in the afternoon. Bass spawning is imminent. It may take another week Read More +
Lake Powell Fishing 3-30-12
Lake Powell Elevation: 3635.29 Water temps vary from areas on Lake from 54-60 degrees throughout the day. Largemouth have moved into the shallows to spawn in stained water. Smallmouth have moved to clear water close to the back of canyons. Schoolie stripers are still on the submerged tree lines in the back of canyons. Crappie are beginning to nest in the backs of canyons. Smallmouth, largemouth, stripers and crappie were all caught yesterday on our Charter.
Lake Powell Fishing Report – Compliments of Wayne Gustavson
Photo: Debi Cross, Greenehaven AZ, with her personal best largemouth bass of 6-pounds caught in Lake Powell’s San Juan arm. Big bass are preparing to spawn this week. Lake Elevation: 3635 Water Temperature 52-60 F By: Wayne Gustaveson Bass are moving up to Spawn Water temperature is still a cool 52 F in the early morning. But on calm sunny days water temperature escalates to over 60 degrees in the shallows by late afternoon. Weather is expected to be calm and sunny for the weekend. Read More +
LAKE POWELL FISHING REPORT – 3-21-12
Photo caption: Brian Hammond, Page, AZ, caught a brown trout in Padre Bay. The bigger surprise is that more brown trout and a rainbow have been recently caught. Looks like bunch of trout were washed downstream last year with the big flood. It will be a very interesting year to fish at Lake Powell. Lake Powell Fish Report – March 21, 2012 Lake Elevation: 3635 Water Temperature 50-57 F By: Wayne Gustaveson Imagine my surprise when checking the water level to find out that Read More +
Lake Powell Fishing 3-14-12 – by Wayne Gustavson
Striped bass trophy caught by Rich Cromwell of Silt, CO. Bouncing tube jigs in 40′ of water across from Halls Ramp. Approx 8:30AM, 3/10/2012. Water temp 49. Our scale went to 24#, it max out. Fish estimated at 28 pounds. High res photo: Kip Bennett. Page AZ, caught this 9 lbs 13 oz striper in Warm Creek on an Alabama rig. Many stripers heavier than 5 pounds have already been caught at Lake Powell and many more will follow this year as big fish are Read More +
Lake Powell Fishing Report March 7, 2012
Lake Powell Fish Report – March 7, 2012 Lake Elevation: 3635 Water Temperature 49-54 F By: Wayne Gustaveson Mike Crowther, Page AZ, shows off one of the trophy largemouth bass caught at Lake Powell this spring. This one came from the San Juan Arm. The better news is that there are many of more of these waiting to be caught in the next 3 months. This will be a banner year for big fish. Fishing Report: Lake Powell water temperature still hovers between Read More +
LAKE POWELL FISHING REPORT – 2-29-12
5lb Walleyes – Lake Powell Lake Powell Fish Report – February 29, 2012 Lake Elevation: 3635 Water Temperature 48-53 F By: Wayne Gustaveson Spring Fishing Begins The water is cold and fish are fussy but some really nice stripers, walleye and bass are being caught. The first fish of spring are fat and healthy. It looks like game fish have wintered well and show signs of producing a bumper crop of trophy individuals in March and April. If you can’t wait for warmer Read More +
Bill’s Corner 1-15-12
Striper Boils "In the West" Best Success! Other than the usual networking of good guides and a reliable "tackle store", you have to be looking at your surroundings as soon as you see water and that is "at the ramp". Most anglers are just as jazzed at heading up Lake especially if they own a fast fishing machine. Then they start fishing…."oops". Here on Lake Powell, Herons, Ravens, Gulls and Coyotes are the main players when hitting striper boils that a lot of time have a lot of bass Read More +
