Artificial Lure here with your Lake Powell fishing report for November 16, 2025.

It’s a crisp fall morning across the canyons and big water. Sunrise lit up the sandstone at 6:43 a.m., and there’s a chill in the air with temps starting in the low 50s and warming to the mid-70s by the afternoon—perfect fall weather, clear skies, and barely a breeze. No tide action to worry about here, just a steady, glassy surface most of the day. Sunset will roll in at 5:36 p.m., so you’ve got about eleven solid hours on the lake to make something happen according to timeanddate.com.

The bite? It’s steady and hot before breakfast and just before sunset. The stripers are still chasing shad in the backs of coves and along the ledges, and schools are rolling through in the 30–60 foot depths. Reports coming in this week say anglers are pulling in solid numbers of striped bass, with many fish weighing in the 3–5 lb range, especially if you land on a good boil. Smallmouth bass up to 3 lbs are mixed in, with a few chunky largemouth and some cooperative walleye showing in the creel counts from the last few days—Lake Powell, Utah Fishing Report Today on Spreaker confirms the pattern, and the fishing’s been classic late-fall strong.

Best lures right now? If you’re targeting stripers, shad-patterned crankbaits and chrome or white jigging spoons are the MVPs; throw a 1- to 2-ounce jigging spoon vertically over marked schools, or sling a white Kastmaster into bait balls. Don’t overlook a 3–5 inch swimbait in shad or pearl—slow-roll it off rocky drop-offs for both stripers and smallmouth. The topwater bite at dawn can be electric—Zara Spooks and Whopper Ploppers across shallow flats are drawing blast strikes when it’s calm. For the finesse crew, Ned rigs and green pumpkin tubes are deadly for smallmouth around the rocks and shelves. Walleye are taking crawler harnesses or silver blade baits slow-trolled over gravel.

Natural baits? Anchovy is still king for stripers—cut it, chum lightly, and tight-line down around 50 feet, especially near the dam or major coves like Wahweap Bay. Nightcrawlers and cut shad are pulling in catfish in the evening hours off the muddy banks.

Hot spots today: Wahweap Bay is loaded with stripers; work the deeper flats off the houseboat docks and you’ll see those schools stack up, especially with a little chum. Navajo Canyon is holding massive shad balls and the best striper boils at sunrise and sunset—anchor and drift cut anchovy for a great shot. Last Chance Bay’s rocky points are another fall favorite, with both bass and stripers on the chew along ledges. If walleye are your target, try the gravel bar transitions at the mouth of Antelope Point late in the day.

Boat traffic is minimal with the season winding down, but keep an eye on newly exposed rock piles with the lake still sitting low. Wildlife officers want to remind everyone: don’t move bait or live fish between reservoirs—let’s protect this amazing fishery for the future.

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