Artificial Lure here with your Lake Powell fishing report for Tuesday, October 28, 2025. Today’s sunrise crept over the red cliffs at 7:38 AM, and you can set your lines until sunset at 6:23 PM. Weather on tap is as good as it gets for fall fishing: clear, crisp, and sunny, with daytime highs around 73°F and a mild south-southwest breeze keeping things fresh. Overnight lows dip into the 40s, so bring a hoodie for those early or late sessions. There’s no recent rainfall and water clarity is excellent, ideal for sight fishing and working those points and coves.

Lake Powell doesn’t have ocean tides, but daily water levels can fluctuate slightly with outflow from the dam and recent inflows; nothing dramatic for backwater anglers today. No flood watches or muddy waters to worry about—just a classic Powell bluebird day.

Now, let’s get to the action. According to yesterday’s on-the-water reports and this morning’s chatter at the docks, it’s prime time for **striped bass** and **smallmouth**. Stripers are schooled up and active, especially in the main channel and mouths of bigger side canyons. Anglers have been pulling up hefty stringers—dozens a day not unheard of—with fish averaging 2 to 4 pounds, some much bigger in the deeper haunts.

The **smallmouth bass** bite just keeps shining. Folks are reporting solid numbers, especially tight to the rocky ledges and shallow drop-offs. Best bet is working soft plastics in natural crayfish or shad colors, Ned rigs, and tube baits slowly along the bottom. For more aggressive fish, casting jerkbaits or compact swimbaits off points by first light is landing quick limits. A few nice **largemouth** have shown up too, especially around submerged brush up the San Juan arm.

Walleye catches are steady, especially by trolling crawler harnesses or bottom bouncers along sandy shelves at 20-30 feet. Early morning and late evening are golden, especially near the mouths of canyons like Last Chance and Rock Creek.

For stripers, live anchovies remain king, but trollers are also cleaning up with deep-diving shad-imitator crankbaits, spoons, and silver slabs, especially below schooling fish visible on sonar. If bait’s your game, nightcrawlers and cut bait are pulling in mixed bags, sometimes with a surprise channel cat or two in the mix.

Recent catches include good-sized crappie taken near brushy backwaters—try small jigs or minnows under slip floats. And for an oddball, beaver sign is on the rise, so watch for freshly chewed sticks in back coves—can mean more structure and therefore more fish in coming years, as noted by The Martinez Beavers crew.

Hot spots for today:
- **Wahweap Bay** near the dam—consistent striper schools, glassy mornings, and quick limits for shore and boat anglers.
- **Bullfrog/Halls Crossing channel**—exceptional for smallmouth, especially working parallel to rocky islands and channel edges.
- If you’re adventurous, tuck into **Navajo Canyon**; water clarity and structure are turning up chunky bass on soft plastics and chatterbaits.

As always, have plenty of lures ready—crankbaits in shad patterns, soft tubes in green pumpkin, and slab spoons for drop-shotting under the birds. Stay versatile and follow the forage.

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