Fishing report: Wintertime, usually slow, is producing

Friday, March 18, 2005 | 8:53 a.m.

NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE

Anglers competing in a striped bass fishing tournament over the weekend had fair success and managed to reel in a 9-pound striper along with two that weighed 7 pounds. Most of the action for stripers is from Sand Island to the back of Las Vegas Wash. A few stripers have been caught recently with anchovies near the tires at Lake Mead Marina.

Anglers fishing in the Overton Arm over the weekend told creel census clerks that they had some luck for stripers in back of Fish Island and at St. Thomas. A shore angler had good luck for 18- to 19-inch stripers over the weekend while fishing with anchovies to the right of the houseboat dock at Echo Bay Marina. Small stripers are being caught at the tires at Overton Beach Marina.

Largemouth bass fishing has been fair for boaters fishing for bass released from the fishing tournaments.

Rainbow trout are being caught after the weekly plants. The final trout plants of winter were sceduled today at Hemenway, Horsepower, North Saddle and Pumphouse coves.

Slow fishing and strong winds were found early this week at Cottonwood Cove, so there was very little fishing activity.

Two anglers fishing at the lake over the weekend told Hutchings that they caught and released 60 trout, many of which were one-and-a-half to two pounds. They also reported catching several rainbows that weighed around 5 pounds. The fish were caught with small spinners.

Fishing has been fairly good for rainbow trout at Cold Springs and Haymeadow reservoirs. NDOW will conduct its first trout plants of the year at the lakes in late March.