Canyon Lake fishing
Canyon 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
- Surface acres
- 950
Access and facts
- Water type
- reservoir
- Nearest town
- Apache Junction, AZ
- Shore access
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Fee required
- Yes
- Facilities
- restrooms, camping, dock
Salt River Project reservoir formed by Mormon Flat Dam (1925) on the Apache Trail (SR 88) northeast of Mesa. Canyon Lake Marina and several day-use sites; Tonto Pass required for boating. Check SRP for drawdowns; a multi-week closure for dam work was planned starting Sept 2026.
Other places to fish at Canyon Lake
About Canyon Lake
AZGFD plants rainbow trout in Canyon Lake each month from November through March. The lake is about 950 acres of red-rock water on the Salt River. A 15-pound state-record largemouth came from shore here, and a 1985 world-record yellow bass did too.
Nearest lakes
Camping near Canyon Lake
Campgrounds within 15 miles of Canyon Lake's mapped point, nearest first: The Point camping (1.7 miles), Tortilla camping (2.5 miles), Bagley Flat camping (3.4 miles), Lost Dutchman State Park camping (6.6 miles), and Larry Forbis Group Campground (7.7 miles), each with its own campground page on campgroundsdb.com.
Straight-line distances.
Public land at Canyon Lake
Canyon Lake is inside Tonto National Forest.
It is 0.3 miles outside the edge of Four Peaks Wilderness.
It is 0.4 miles outside the edge of Superstition Wilderness.
Boundaries from Public Lands DB, part of the same network.