I curently live and fish in arizona.i am making a trip up north to the verde River near Flaggstaff az.  i have been fishing the lake in the valley  pretty regularly and was curious if there was some different stratey to fishing a River.  it is a large river and i am not too sure of the flow, but if any of u guys had advice i would appreciate it.  thx

there's a wealth of info about fishing rivers here in the forums, but I'd say do a lot of sight fishing from as far away as you can. if you locate a fish or even see a nice structure you think they'll be holding in - make your presentation from as far away as possible and try to cast past them in run your lure through that pocket. upstream and across usually works best in rivers or streams.

flagstaff climate and variables are much like colorado's, so I'll venture to say it's possible that the river's running high and extremely fast right now from all the run-off and such. hopefully, that's not the case - 'cause it's making some of my typical river spots a pain in the arse right now!

I assume you're taking a spinning rig since you're used to fishing the lakes - or are you fly fishing? g'luck!

I am for sure taking my spinning gear. i dont really know what to expect when i get up there 'cause i am not sure how murky the water is (if like the lakes it is muurky) and not sure of the cover and structure. i do appreciate the info and i will look into those forums.

cool, well it looks like verde river has both major types of bass, 2-3 types of catfish and stocked rainbows. nice assortment! make sure you take those gold and silver panther martins, some tubes, maybe a couple rebel wee craws, a float and fly rig (either match the hatch or use a couple pistol petes) and maybe some fluke type baits. hope you do well, man, let us know how the trip goes and what the conditions are like.