Fishing report: Striped bass making waves in Lake Mead

Friday, June 18, 2004 | 9:01 a.m.

NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

Boaters are still having fair success for striped bass in Lake Mead's Boulder Basin and Overton Arm while shore anglers have had no luck during the past week, according to the Nevada Department of Wildlife.

Over the weekend boaters caught stripers that weighed 1-3 pounds around Stewart's Point. Channel catfish are also being caught in that area by boaters and shore anglers.

Boaters told NDOW creel census clerks that they managed to catch a few largemouth bass and several smallmouth bass over the weekend in the Overton Arm. Most of the smallmouths have been coming from around Echo Bay.

Two shore fishermen had no luck while fishing for stripers on Monday morning at Hemenway Point and Pumphouse Cove. They said one angler they encountered at Hemenway Point had caught two catfish that were 2-3 pounds.

Boaters are still finding stripers from Hemenway Point to Boulder Beach and at Boxcar Cove and the 33 Hole. Casting Sassy Shad lures and drifting with anchovies are taking the fish.

A boater who was fishing over the weekend near Temple Bar said fishing was fair for largemouth bass. The fish are biting on artificial worms and tube lures.

Largemouth bass fishing has been fair in coves around Cottonwood Cove and creel clerks saw a fish that weighed 3 pounds.

Rainbow trout fishing has been good and all of the fishing parties that were checked over the weekend by NDOW creel census clerks had trout. Most of the fish were just less than a pound, but there were a few that weighed around 2 pounds. Anglers fishing from the dams are catching trout with PowerBait and live worms.

Largemouth bass are in a post-spawning mode and the action for them has been fair. NDOW is reminding anglers that bass must be 10 inches in total length in order to be kept.