Lake Pleasant, AZ - Thanksgiving week
Now that my boat is stored in the SunLakes area of Phx, I had an opportunity to take it out for a spin to Lake Pleasant a couple of times with my father. It's not the closest lake to us (takes me an hour trailering it to the lake), but it is the only "close" lake around that has stripers (my father and I are not LMB kinda guys, and we don't usually motivate for Truck Trout).
I'm not super familiar with the lake, and I mainly partied on the lake during my ASU days, so it took us both a while to try to figure out what was going on as far as fishing is concerned. Both days we went out we got lucky and there was barely anyone on the lake. Keep in mind Pleasant is massive (10k+ acres) and has coves that run a couple miles or more upstream (Agua Fria River section for example).
Not much of a fishing report, just some pics I shot for enjoyment.
(seems my image tags reflect "Lake Skinner"...but I assure you it's Pleasant!!!)
People store some big boats here. In fact we saw a couple of suspicious dudes taking off at high speed from the marina in a really nice yacht.
A little later, we saw them tied up to the dock we were using. As you can see, it's a massive boat compared to mine!
As it turns out, the guys were "REPO" dudes. They had got in a scuffle with the marina manager (backdue slip fees over $10K) and the boat payments were way behind. The marina manager said he called the owner (Phoenix Suns Player) and he was coming down to the lake asap. Ha ha ha!!
Not a boat in sight either day we went.
Typical finger cove at this lake.
Sometimes you get lucky using cut chovies.
The old man in the process of farming a small white bass. Got it close enough to ID, then it C&R'd itself before I could snap a pic.
He redeemed himself a little later that day and got the biggest fish of the day. (Agua Fria River inlet, about 3 or 4 miles upstream)
Goodnight Lake Pleasant. See ya in couple of weeks!
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