Fishing report: Shore anglers aren’t finding much luck, but boaters are OK

Friday, Sept. 24, 2004 | 9:04 a.m.

Nevada Department of Wildlife

Boaters have been doing well for stripers at Las Vegas Wash by fishing deep with anchovies. They are also catching stripers off Special Events Beach and in open water near the mouth of Government Wash.

Anglers have been reporting to the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) that they have been catching some stripers that are thin. This could be caused by a lack of shad due to poor spawning success this year of the small bait fish.

Several anglers have told NDOW that they have had good success for channel catfish during the past week at Special Events Beach.

Very few anglers took to the water over the weekend because of windy conditions. Creel census clerks checked three boaters over two days and they only brought in a pair of largemouth bass.

It was elbow-to-elbow fishing last Friday as a large crowd was on hand for the rainbow trout plant at Willow Beach. It appeared that everyone managed to catch three or four fish, but very few 10-trout limits were reported.

NDOW stocked the local reservoirs with rainbow trout this past week. Adams- McGill Reservoir was stocked with 20,000 fish and Cold Springs Reservoir with 8,000 rainbow trout. The fish averaged 11 inches. Haymeadow Reservoir is scheduled to be stocked this week.