QUAGGA REMINDER: With the ice melting on northern waters, anglers are preparing their boats for the trip north and NDOW is asking boaters to take the necessary precautions to prevent the spread of quagga mussels from the Colorado River system to other waters.

Thoroughly clean, drain and dry your boat, trailer and towing vessel before traveling to another water.

EAGLE VALLEY

RESERVOIR

Crews are working to restore the reservoirs aeration system, but fishing remains fair to good for stocked rainbows. Weeds are not an issue but anglers will encounter algae. PowerBait and worms are catching the fish.

ECHO CANYON

RESERVOIR

Though the water is low anglers are finding fair to good fishing for small bass, crappie and rainbow trout. Fly anglers can take advantage of feeding activity. Weeds are becoming an issue, but fish can be caught by casting to open areas.

LAKE MEAD

The Vegas Bay arm has been giving up a lot of small striped bass, but this week a lucky angler reeled in a 20-pound striper from that area. Anglers fishing out of Callville Bay are finding good action for largemouth and smallmouth bass. Catfish have also been biting. Fishing along the beaches was slow over the weekend, but that could be due to boating traffic in the area. In the Overton arm striped bass have been taking lures, live shad and anchovies.

LAKE MOHAVE

Salmon egg flavored PowerBait has been the key for trout anglers at Willow Beach. On Sunday one group of fishermen caught 27 trout in about seven hours, but most successful anglers averaged just one to two fish in from one to three hours of fishing.

The trout average about 12.5 inches in length with the best fishing taking place south of the picnic area. Striper fishing in this portion of the lake is slow.

In contrast anglers are finding good to very fishing conditions out of Cottonwood Cove.

Temperatures are high but winds that have battered the area all spring have simmered down. Small stripers are taking baits near the point north of the marina.

Boat anglers are catching fish of a larger size by trolling with whole anchovies or sardines. Success has come both in the morning and evenings.

WAYNE E. KIRCH WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA

Trout and largemouth bass are both bending rods on management area reservoirs. Trout are taking flies, bait and rooster tails.

Bass are hitting hardware and plastics. One angler reportedly had a 20-bass day earlier this week.

URBAN PONDS

Bluegill are taking mealworms or pieces of night crawlers fished on the bottom at Floyd Lamb Park. Anglers are also taking the occasional rainbow trout.

Fishing tends to slow down at Sunset or Lorenzi Park this time of year because these waters offer little shade and the fish are in deep water and holding near any cover they can find. For catfish use stink baits, night crawlers or chicken livers fished on the bottom.