Las Vegas Fishing

[DTro]

I'm going to give this one another go round as I didn't get any takers last time:

When one thinks of Vegas, fishing is probably low on the priority, but has anyone did any fishing there? From looking around, the best bet would be stripers on Mead. Any other options?

I'm thinking about April. I'm not one to sit at a casino all day, I like to get out and do things. Last time I was there I did the Grand Canyon thing, very cool.

Looks like the average price is about $275. Might be kind of fun even if I caught a bunch of dinks.

[federline]

I've done some research on this, but my first trip will be this summer yet. We like the heat.

Stripers in Mead is the tourist headline story, for sure. Big Lake, big fish - big business! But go to NDOW dot ORG on the web - Nevada Department Of Wildlife. Click on "Fish Nevada", then mouse over the "Fish" menu, mouse over "Where to Fish" and select "Fishable Waters by Species. Select a species, it will list the lakes it is known to inhabit and if they are common or not. Then, select the "Angler Information Link" to get the deails, much like the MN DNR website.

The website also has the state divided up into three regions, if you wont' be travelling far from LAs Vegas. And you can confirm your planned lake with the "Top 100 fishing waters" list, too.

Nevada has five kinds of bass, three kinds of catfish, two kinds of perch, walleye, 5 kinds of trout, 3 kinds of sunnies, whitefish... In the reserviors and urban fishing ponds around LV, NDOW stocks rainbow trout and channel cat as gamefish, too. There's 5 or 6 urban fishing ponds within an easy drive from LV, in addition to Lake Mead and Lake Mojave.

As with MN, the fishing gets more interesting the further north in NV you go.

What you don't find is our friends from the family Esox. In fact, One of the lead NDOW stories is about illegally introduced Pike being a major pest in a aprticular lake. Here's a quote:

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There is no limit on the number of pike that can be caught and kept from Comins Lake. NDOW encourages anglers to keep all of the pike they catch and not return them to the lake. In fact, the northern pike is now considered, by regulation, a prohibited species, so anglers wishing to keep northern pike to eat are required to kill them upon capture.

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When in Rome....

Let me know how it goes when you are back - jfederline at yahoo (Contact US Regarding This Word) - we're spending a couple weeks in Nevada this summer.