Theodore Roosevelt Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Channel Catfish, Black Crappie
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Channel Catfish, Black Crappie, Bluegill, Redear, Green Sunfish, Bigmouth Buffalo
Boat: 6 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Cholla Boating.
The reservoir
Theodore Roosevelt Lake covers 18,850 acres in Arizona, across 2 counties: Gila and Maricopa. It is a reservoir: 93.9% of it is 120 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 163 feet (49.7 m). Our records hold 18 species for this water.
Depth: down to 163 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 163 ft (49.7 m). 93.9% of the water is 120 feet or shallower. We hold 259 depth contours for this water, drawn from 4,129,972 soundings.
- 0–10 ft: 19.1% of the water
- 10–20 ft: 10.2% of the water
- 20–30 ft: 6.4% of the water
- 30–40 ft: 7.8% of the water
- 40–50 ft: 9.5% of the water
- 50–60 ft: 8.9% of the water
- 60–70 ft: 6.3% of the water
- 70–80 ft: 4.2% of the water
- 80–90 ft: 3.9% of the water
- 90–100 ft: 5.1% of the water
- 100–110 ft: 7.3% of the water
- 110–120 ft: 5.2% of the water
- 120–130 ft: 1.8% of the water
- 130–140 ft: 2.4% of the water
- 140–145 ft: 2% of the water
7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Redear — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Green Sunfish — Feeding water: 65–80°F.
- Bigmouth Buffalo — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
Also recorded here: Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Flathead Catfish, Brown Trout, White Crappie, Yellow Bullhead, Common Carp, Goldfish, Gizzard Shad, Threadfin Shad.
6 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 6 boat ramps.
- Cholla Boating — US Forest Service. website fs.usda.gov/recarea/tonto/recarea/?recid=35727
- Grapevine — restrooms. On Salt River - Roosevelt Lake, US Forest Service. website fs.usda.gov/recarea/tonto/recarea/?recid=35741
- Indian Point — on Salt River - Roosevelt Lake, US Forest Service. website fs.usda.gov/recarea/tonto/recreation/recarea/?recid=35721
- Roosevelt Lake Marina — Roosevelt. 28085 AZ-188, Roosevelt 85545 · phone +1-602-977-7170 · website rlmaz.com · email [email protected]
- Schoolhouse Boating — on Salt River - Roosevelt Lake, US Forest Service. website fs.usda.gov/recarea/tonto/recreation/recarea/?recid=35743
- Windy Hill Boating — US Forest Service. website fs.usda.gov/recarea/tonto/recreation/recarea/?recid=35795
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 6 places in this list: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 66°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.1. These readings span 2021–2026.
What is hard here
Wind is the limit, not the fish: 18,850 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle.
Where this data comes from
- US Bureau of Reclamation — USBR reservoir sedimentation surveys: class A, a survey of the bottom, 2013.
- U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (RISE) — USBR area-capacity tables (RISE): class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
- Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
