Marshall Lake Fishing near Mountainaire, Arizona

• Overview

  This water sits in Coconino County, Arizona. The bank is 7,116 feet above sea level. Roughly 164 acres: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. Some 3.5 miles of bank gives room to move when the wind turns. It ranks high for size among our Coconino County listings. Mountainaire is the closest town at 7.8 miles. Deer Valley is the closest city, 105 miles away. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Marshall Lake

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Records held for Coconino County cover brown trout, common carp, flannelmouth sucker, bluehead sucker and green sunfish. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. On Marshall Lake the first feature you find is usually worth a session.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July runs about 66°F on average, January about 28°F. The freeze here is occasional rather than annual. In a normal year the cover is thin and short-lived. The cooler months are the comfortable ones to fish here. At Marshall Lake the season follows that pattern closely. Wind direction changes which bank is worth fishing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public data does not answer the access question here. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. Parking is not close: half a mile from the bank, and no nearer option is mapped. You can camp about half a mile away, going by the mapping. A phone call first saves an afternoon. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. The nearest alternative is Little Dry Lake, 0.7 miles out. Treat access at Marshall Lake as something to verify.