QUAGGA REMINDER: 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

There is about three inches of ice on the reservoir, still too thin. Conditions are unsafe. Give it another week or so.

ECHO CANYON >RESERVOIR

The reservoir is covered with ice. Conditions remain unsafe. Give it another week or so.

LAKE MEAD

Stripers are being caught in the Vegas arm from Crawdad Cove to Government Wash. Action for striped bass elsewhere has slowed even though shad are present in all areas.

Live shad is the top bait choice. Remember, if you catch your own shad, a legal net can have no larger than a three-foot radius.

Trolling continues to be the choice method for the stripper fisherman. Artificial lures and frozen bait like anchovies are also productive from the shore for stripers.

Trout fishing was slow following last week's plant at each of the plant locations.

LAKE MOHAVE

Angler use and success at Willow Beach has steadily declined following the suspension of trout stocking by the Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery.

Fishing has been fair to good out of Cottonwood Cove with stripers being reported in the two- to eight-pound range. Trolling with anchovies, sardines or artificial baits have been catching striped bass.

LAUGHLIN

Though the fish are mostly small, striped bass are hitting cut anchovies below Davis Dam. Anglers are catching some largemouth bass along the Colorado River. Above the dam on Lake Mohave, smallies and largemouth are both active.

WAYNE E. KIRCH WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA

The reservoirs are covered with thin ice. Conditions remain unsafe.

URBAN PONDS

Fishing activity slowed with the holidays. The department planned to stock the urban ponds Tuesday -- just in time for the new year.