FunFishing the Colorado River
Welcome to the Colorado.
I’ve heard the crappie bite is back on in the Topock Marsh but haven’t been able to find out any details. While Arizona sports both black and white crappie, black crappie are more plentiful and are the only kind anglers can ever recall catching in the Topock Marsh. According to the AZG&F web site, the only place where white the crappie have been caught has been at Lake Pleasant.
Water temperature in the Topock Gorge is 52º and with the water level up only a foot, it is cloudy and difficult to sight fish. A bite is hard to come by; nevertheless, it’s time to get ready because the stripers have arrived! A client of mine, Randy Bell of Lone Butt, British Columbia, boated a stout 7.5-pound line-side below the cable. Normally I wouldn’t kill a fish that size, but Bell and his group had their hearts set on a fish fry. She was caring two juvenile egg sacks which bodes for a fine spawn in February or March. Also taken that day were a 3.5-pounder and a 3-pound channel cat. A couple of days later I spotted another striper in the 10-pound class boiling near the I-40 Bridge. If you haven’t thought about it already, it looks like it’s time to break out of the rut and get to fishing!
See you on the river. Until the next time, Keep your sinker in the water and the plug in your boat, and remember no matter what time of day or year it's always FunFishing on the Colorado!
Capt. Doyle
“Fishing is just fishing. But, catching is a gift.”
~ Quote from a long ago and forgotten fishing magazine
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