Colorado River (Blythe & Palo Verde)
Blythe (California-Arizona border) · near Blythe · California Desert
Fishing
At a glance
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Best season
- Bass spring–fall · catfish summer · stripers year-round
Permits and booking
- Licence required
- Yes
- Licence detail
- CA license (16+) required; California and Arizona have a reciprocal Colorado River stamp/arrangement for anglers fishing the border river (check current CDFW/AZGFD rules). Warm-water fishery for bass, stripers, and big catfish along the CA-AZ border.
What is here
- Features
- Warm-water border-river fishery · Bass, stripers & big catfish · Year-round warm-season fishing · Desert-oasis setting
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Allowed
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Fishing detail
- Water type
- river
- Water
- fresh
- Methods
- Casting · Bait · Trolling
- Boat
- both
- Target species
- Largemouth bass · Striped bass · Flathead & channel catfish · Bluegill & crappie
- Intl tip
- License required — note the special CA-AZ Colorado River reciprocal arrangement for the border river (check current CDFW/AZGFD rules). Bass, stripers, and big catfish (fish dawn/dusk/night in summer heat). Year-round warm-water fishing. Combine with the desert parks. A green oasis fishery very different from the rest of the state.
The guide
Where the Colorado River forms the California–Arizona border near Blythe, it creates a warm, green ribbon of life through the s…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Colorado River (Blythe & Palo Verde) — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 33.61, -114.596