Trout Fishing Tips

Most Arizona trout anglers dream about catching trophy size trout, but few do.

Once a year, the Arizona Fish and Game Department stocks each of it's 20 Urban Fishing lakes with trophy size trout - and that stocking happened this week!
Some of these "incentive" trout are as much as 2 feet long and weigh up to 4 pounds.

Last year an angler caught a 4-1/2 pound trout out of Surprise Lake during the first hour after stocking. And an 8-pounder trout was caught out of Payson's Green Valley Lakes.

The department's Urban Fishing Program includes lakes in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Chandler, Mesa, Gilbert, Surprise, Peoria, Tucson, Sahuarita and the Payson area. Many of these lakes are located in popular community parks. For more information on the Urban Lakes, click here.

Don't forget to buy an urban fishing license ($18.50). If you do a lot of fishing, you might want to check out the new super-conservation fishing license. This is the first year this new license has been offered and it includes the regular Arizona fishing license, trout stamp and Urban license into one package for $53 ($63 for non-residents).

Good luck! And remember, if you do catch one of these trophy size trout, I'd love to hear about it!

Labels: arizona fishing, arizona trout fishing, arizona urban lakes

If you're anything like me, your days are hectic and you sometimes need a reminder of those events you were looking forward to attending. So I wanted to drop a brief reminder that today is the day for Tempe's Town Lake "Welcome Back the Trout".

I called the lake marina yesterday in an effort to get as many details as possible and was able to narrow down the fish stocking to take place sometime between 3 and 3:30 pm. If you have kids, you won't want to miss this as the fish will be brought in on a see-through fishmobile!

The free fishing clinic will take place between 3 - 5 pm and you won't need a fishing license for the day.

Labels: arizona fishing, Tempe Town Lake, Welcome Back the Trout