Whether you are an experienced, occasional or new angler, the Arizona Urban Fishing Program offers great fishing opportunities that you are sure to enjoy. There are 21 city park lakes currently participating in the Program, a partnership between the Arizona Game and Fish Department and 11 cities across the state. To ensure fishermen have a good chance of catching fish, plenty of ready-to-catch fish are stocked over a 10-month period from mid September through June; every two weeks! More than 4 million Arizona residents live within a 20-minute drive of a heavily stocked Urban Fishing Program lake. Close by and convenient, all the parks offer parking, restrooms and other amenities to make your fishing trip and park visit enjoyable.

Water developments are a widely used wildlife management tool in the arid Southwest. The ecological effects of those facilities have received little study and remain a source of controversy. We studied direct and indirect effects of wildlife water developments in southwestern Arizona from 1999-2003. Our results did not support hypothesized negative impacts suggested by critics of wildlife water development programs.