Bed Fishing Bass on the Lower Salt River in Arizona

Late February, March and into early April can be a great time to fish the lower Salt River for largemouth bass on beds. It's an easy and entertaining way to get kids on some fish. Click here to see the YouTube video. It is as simple as finding deeper, slower stretches such as near the Blue Point Bridge, Water Users, Granite Reef, Phon D. Sutton, or Coons Bluff. Just walk along the river with a decent pair of polarized sunglasses and look for bass on beds. Once you find them, bounce something like a twister tail grub on a jig head (that's what we did), a small bucktail jig, a rubber lizard/worm or almost anything up and down on their bed in front of their nose until they get irritated into biting it. We did find that smaller baits worked better. We were using medium and medium light spinning rods with 6 and 8 lb fluorocarbon line. They are bed fish, so quickly release them so they can get back on their beds. And don't catch the same fish multiple times.