Page, Ariz.
A High-Desert Angling Community

If you associate Arizona with cactus and cowboys more than fishing, you're certainly not alone. But then again, you might not have ever been to Page. Situated in the high desert of northern Arizona, Page is the stepping-off point to Lake Powell, an elaborate maze of flooded canyons that comprises the second largest man-made lake in America. The town owes its existence to the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam that formed the lake (it wasn't officially incorporated as a town until 1975), and now involves a healthy tourist trade catering to house boaters, desert naturalists, and anglers. Fishing on Lake Powell is tricky, with lake depths ranging to 500 feet and a variety of fish species from striped, largemouth, and smallmouth bass to walleye. But fishing the lake is only half the attraction. Below Glen Canyon Dam at Lees Ferry, the Colorado River is known as one of the most technically challenging fisheries for rainbow trout in the West.

Photo courtesy of: Lees Ferry Anglers