Public encouraged to provide input to assist Arizona’s outdoor recreation planning

PHOENIX – Outdoor recreation enthusiasts are encouraged to participate in the Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) by taking the public survey conducted by Arizona State Parks and Trails.  The SCORP serves as a guide for public outdoor recreation in...

Bass Fishing Lake Mohave April 19, 2021

Water temperature warming to the upper 60s and a few bass are still spawning. Beginning to see a few feeding with the warming water. Two state records have come from Lake Mohave; a 63 pound striped bass was caught in 2001 and a 16 lb 4 oz rainbow trout was caught in...

Fireworks Over the Colorado River Christmas Night 2020

Christmas Night fireworks over the Colorado River between Bullhead City, Arizona and Laughlin, Nevada. Bullhead City is a city located on the Colorado River in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, roughly 90 miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada, and directly across the...

Arizona Game and Fish Commission to meet Feb. 8 in Yuma

PHOENIX — The next meeting of the Arizona Game and Fish Commission will be at 8 a.m. Friday, Feb. 8 at the Holiday Inn at 1901 E. 18th Street in Yuma, Ariz. The public can attend the meeting or view it via webcast at http://livestream.com/azgameandfish. The meeting...

Quantum Accurist S3™ still $99, Adds External ACS Cast Control

Due to its highly affordable $99 price, and tough all aluminum frame, Accurist has long been a top selling reel for Quantum, and now the latest S3 version adds a super easy to use external ACS 3.0 cast control dial that allows for precision adjustments, no matter the...

Quantum Throttle II™ offers Performance Tuned Technologies

The NEW 2019 version of Throttle will offer the same solid-as-a-rock Reel Engine Design™ unibody construction used to make the original Throttle one of fishing’s best built values, plus a new machined aluminum handle and a MaxCast II™ spool for longer smoother casts....

NIH study finds two pesticides associated with Parkinson’s disease

New research shows a link between use of two pesticides, rotenone and paraquat, and Parkinson’s disease. People who used either pesticide developed Parkinson’s disease approximately 2.5 times more often than non-users. Rotenone, regularly used by the Corp of...

Yamaha Introduces Three New Propellers

Kennesaw, Ga., July 2, 2012 — Yamaha Marine Group announced today it will increase its propeller offerings as part of its ongoing effort to provide endless propeller solutions.  Added to Yamaha’s propeller line up are three new products that are…

Buying a Used Bass Fishing Boat

The current economic environment has created an excellent boat buyer’s market, and pre-owned could be a great way to go.

Oxygenation of Livewells to Improve Survival of Tournament-Caught Bass – Lake Mohave

Bass fishing heats up in summer, but extra effort is required by tournament anglers to maintain the health of their catch this time of year. Dissolved oxygen is the single most important factor for keeping bass alive, and an understan…

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Points . . . A Great Hangout for Bass – Lake Mohave

Points are one of the most common types of structure found in a lake. Structure is defined as any contour change in the lakes bottom, and that includes points. There are many different types of points, depending on the particular lake and it’s bottom composition. Poi…

Crankbaits – Crank and Wind for Bass! – Lake Mohave

Crankbaits are great fish finders, and are productive twelve months of the year. Baitfish can be imitated through various styles, colors, and patterns of crankbait lures. Some are large, fat, and big billed and have a big wobble when retrieved through the water; oth…

Confidence = Success for Bass Fishing! – Lake Mohave

Successful anglers most often possess a quality of self confidence in their abilities to locate, tempt, and catch bass. As with all things in life, the more one knows about what they are doing, the more adept they become at that situation. The old saying “Practice mak…

Bass Sense – Lake Mohave

Many anglers have fished for years, not understanding the physical and mental make-up of a bass’s system. To increase productivity in anything, one must first do some homework on what makes anything “tick”. And, that includes the bass. A bass’s senses include sight, …

Bass Fishing Tournament Strategies – Lake Mohave

Of all different aspects of tournament fishing, without a doubt the least understood by the average angler is the matter of prefishing. Even the word “prefishing” itself is awfully ambiguous. Just mention that word to someone who knows nothing about bass tournaments, an…

Oso Blanco Lodge Falcon Lake – Lake Mohave

For the past two years I’ve been hearing about all the big fish being caught at Falcon. Not that any fisherman has every been known to misstate a fact but the tales of so many 20 pound plus 5 fish catches were a bit hard for me to believe at first.

These stories sta…

Pre-Spawn Patterns for Toledo Bend – Lake Mohave

The fish are on the move; however, the lake dropped over a foot in a one week period and on Friday, they received over 9″ of rain which had the bass pulled back out of the buck brush and they were relating more to mainlake points, secondary points and inside and outside…

Pre Spawn Patterns for Sam Rayburn – Lake Mohave

For the past month, Big Sam has been as temperamental as most all our East Texas lakes have been, especially in giving up numbers of bass. The high winds, rain and weekend cold fronts have kept the bass hanging out, and as of yet, they have not moved onto the beds to d…

The Gift of Conservation – Lake Mohave

The holiday season is a good time for reflection. A time to be grateful for all that we have. A time to give just for the good feeling we get from giving.

One of the most important things that we all can be thankful for, after good health and good fortune for ourselv…

The Gift of A Lifetime – Lake Mohave

Some 40 odd years ago a grey haired man stood on a bridge with a young boy looking at a bobber floating below in the Arkansas River in Wichita, Kansas. As the old man leaned over the railing to look at some ducks that were swimming by under the bridge something fell fr…

Rinker’s Boat World – Lake Mohave

Visit our booth at the Houston Boat Show January 7th – 16th at the Reliant Center, Houston Texas.

Rinker’s Boat World
2500 W Mt Houston
Houston, Texas 77038
800-847-9247
281-847-0064

Art Show and Sale Upcoming at Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center – Lake Mohave

ATHENS, Texas—Terry Jones of Jewett turns trash into treasure—metal sculptures that look like prehistoric fish despite being made of old saw blades, meat grinders, car parts and anything else that strikes his fancy.

“A piece is only as good as the quality of the ju…

Top Texas Conservation Stories of 2004 – Lake Mohave

When It Rains, It Pours — Texas’ natural resources showed their potential in 2004, thanks to higher than normal rainfall across most of the state. The abundance of water created lush habitat conditions, setting the stage for near-record production among many wildlif…

Fishing Big Sam Rayburn – Lake Mohave

Most of our East Texas lakes have undergone massive changes in the last year, and none have been so severely affected as Sam Rayburn. The temperature is hot, the fishing is not; and, grass was hardly anywhere to be seen! With only one day to prefish before our last An…

Summer Patterns for Lake Livingston – Lake Mohave

Texas is abundantly blessed with many wonderful fishing lakes and recreational facilities. Lake Livingston is the last major lake on the Trinity River before it runs into the Gulf of Mexico. It is a great place to go for a family weekend or summer vacation getaway. L…