Apache Lake fishing
Apache Lake fishing is on a reservoir. No species or stocking events are on the current agency reports yet.
- Last stocked
- Not in these reports
- Plants on record
- 0
- Species recorded
- 0
Access and facts
- Water type
- reservoir
- Nearest town
- Roosevelt, AZ
- Shore access
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Fee required
- Yes
- Facilities
- camping, restrooms
Salt River Project reservoir behind Horse Mesa Dam (1927), between Roosevelt and Canyon lakes on Tonto National Forest. Apache Lake Marina and Resort is the main developed access; Tonto Pass required for boating. Upper end closed to water skiing.
Other places to fish at Apache Lake
About Apache Lake
USFS cites strong trout and warmwater fishing at Apache Lake among painted canyon walls. Motor and non-motor boats are both allowed. Horse Mesa Dam formed the lake in 1927, five miles below Roosevelt. It is the second-largest Salt River Project lake.
Nearest lakes
Camping near Apache Lake
Campgrounds within 15 miles of Apache Lake's mapped point, nearest first: Apache Lake North Shore Boat Campground (4.5 miles), Burnt Corral Campground (4.7 miles), Tortilla camping (8.4 miles), The Point camping (8.6 miles), and Frazier Horse Campground (9.8 miles), each with its own campground page on campgroundsdb.com.
Straight-line distances.
Public land at Apache Lake
Apache Lake is inside Tonto National Forest.
It is 0.2 miles outside the edge of Four Peaks Wilderness.
Boundaries from Public Lands DB, part of the same network.