Best places to fish in Lake Havasu City

Lake Havasu City sits on a sprawling desert reservoir on the Colorado River, and it has quietly become one of the Southwest's best bass fisheries. Lake Havasu's clear water gives up largemouth and smallmouth bass, hard-fighting striped bass, and giant redear sunfish - the lake has produced world-record redear, drawing panfish specialists from across the country. Decades of the fish-habitat improvement program have sunk brush and structure across the lake, concentrating fish and making them findable for a guide who knows the coves and points. The bite runs year-round in this warm climate, but spring is prime, when bass move shallow to spawn and the redear stack up on the flats. Guides fish from bass boats, working drop-shots, jigs, crankbaits and topwater depending on the season and depth. Clear-water sight fishing is a real treat here. The guides below are ranked by Google review volume and rating.