Lake Powell Fishing Report June 1, 2025 Capt. Bill McBurney
Lake Powell Elevation: 3558.98 feet Smallmouth and largemouth bass have slided deeper and we are still catching the 1-2 lb. smallmouth in 10-30′ of water trolling and tubing as well. The better reports of largemouth have been from the San Juan Arm. For us an overcast morning on zara spooks has been very good. Walleye? I don’t usually talk walleye but more reports this year from anglers is good and we have caught a few as well as we usually stumble on to a few Read More +
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Lake Powell Fishing Report April 30, 2025 by Captain Bill McBurney
Lake Powell Elevation: 3557.96 All bass species are “spring time good”. Lots of low quality stripers so you have to hunt the fat fish that have bait fish to feed on. Some days are better than others. Our best is on the FlyRod and Soft Shad Swim Baits Here are some recent photos this past week Capt. Bill
Spring Fishing Lake Powell Report April 11, 2025 by Capt. Bill
Lake Powell Elevation: 35,677 Water Temp: 55 degrees April – May Fly, spin or trolling the game is on for striped bass, smallmouth and largemouth bass. You will have to hunt for quality fish as there are a lot of dormant schools that are a mix of poor, fair and quality. Those fish schooled up deep in winter lunch’s and there are thinner fish that staged closer to winter bait schools in side canyons We do our best to hunt the bait schools Read More +
Captain Bill McBurney Wins Award for Best Fishing Guide!
Once again Captain Bill McBurney has won the Best of Page Award in 2024 for Best Fishing Guide. This is his 7th time winning the award! Best of Page is sponsored by the Page Lake Powell Chamber of Commerce, where local peers vote for their favorite in many categories. This year had 42 categories and the Best Fishing Guide was presented to Capt. Bill McBurney, who has won the award in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. This is the first one held since Read More +
Lake Powell Fishing Report 8-26-2024 by Capt. Bill McBurney
Our Fall Get Ready Report Dear Anglers, This summer was spent getting my knee that was done in December cleaned out of scar tissue so my time on Lake Powell was not possible. I am now recovered and will be back in business beginning September. I am currently taking bookings. This year, I am scaling back and only offering 2-3 anglers maximum only and 1/2 days or 6 hours only. My rates are the same: 1-2 Anglers $575.00 and additional $50 and 6 hours Read More +
Lake Powell Fishing Report – June 9, 2024 – Capt. Bill McBurney
Fishing Report – Lake Powell June 9, 2024 Ambassador Guides & Outfitters Lake Powell Elevation: 3573.75 The moon phases play a big part normally to top water feeding times. There is a lot of activity due to colder runoff coming into Lake Powell as well and there is spawning stripers in the mix that are best trolled for. Early morning hunt for surface fish until they do down from slurping micro shad schools. It’s a game, positioning the boat in time for anglers to cast Read More +
Lake Powell Fishing Report May 2024 by Capt. Bill McBurney
Spring Fishing at Lake Powell Here is Bill’s first client for the season after my knee surgery this December and as you can see? The Action is definitely on! Lake Powell Elevation: 3559.19 Water Temp: 60 in the Channel and 65 degrees in the back of canyons. . Dear Anglers,Spring Actions is here especially for smallmouth trolling and casting tubes. Stripers are starting to stage on their ambush points for all types of fishing be it trolling, casting and fly fishing too for the somewhat Read More +
Lake Powell Fishing Report September 2023
This week with full moon phase , expect your top water action to be spotty at best. We have had good catching of smallmouth and stripers trolling points to main channel and in the 40-70 ft. Range in canyons holding bait. Use Zara Spooks and Fly Fishing poppers. Expect fishing to improve after this moon! Capt. Bill Some photos from last 2 days:
Lake Powell Fall Update by Capt. Bill McBurney 9-17-23
Lake Powell Elevation 3573.64 The stripers are in the best condition in decades due to the huge shad bloom in decades. With 77 degree water, it has put the schools in gear and you just have to go find them. top water Zara spooks and deep diving shad crank baits for trolling. This is good for the fly rod enthusiast as well as you can be versatile to do what’s working with conventional but always ready to to switch when there on top busting Read More +
