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Lake Pleasant, AZ
Reservoir in Maricopa County, Arizona. A roughly 10,000-acre reservoir on the Agua Fria River about 35 miles northwest of Phoenix at Lake Pleasant Regional Park. Arizona's premier striped bass fishery, with strong populations of largemouth and smallmouth bass, white bass, crappie, channel and flathead catfish, and sunfish. Stripers school and boil on shad in the warm months; bass fishing is best spring and fall. Deep, clear desert reservoir at about 1,700 ft.
Overall bite score
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What swims here
8 tracked species in Lake Pleasant, with the months each fishes best.
Water facts
Multiple concrete ramps at Lake Pleasant Regional Park plus Pleasant Harbor and Scorpion Bay marinas. No representative in-lake USGS gauge (the upstream Agua Fria gauge is an ephemeral desert wash), so water temperature uses a seasonal baseline. Maricopa County park entrance fee plus an Arizona fishing license required.
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