 Lake El Salto Resort
55 miles North of Mazatlan
Airport Code: MZT
550 feet above sea level
27,000 acre feet
Stocked in 1985 with Florida Strain Large Mouth Bass
10-unit double-occupancy, with AC & private bath
Overlooking the lake
Ranger bass boats
English-speaking local guides
80-95 bass daily per boat, weighing 6-12 pounds
Lake record: 19+ pounds
Lake El Salto is one of the most famous trophy bass fishing lakes in Mexico. This reputation has been due to the thousands of huge bass that have been caught and released back into the lake by Americans.
Located in the state of Sinoloa about 90 minutes northeast of the port city of Mazatlan, Lake El Salto was created in 1986, with the damming of the Elota River. The result is a remote reservoir that sprawls across 27,000 acres during the rainy months and 17,000 acres during the latter portion of the bass season.
The dreamland bass fishery bears the imprint of the Mexican government, who stocked fast-growing Florida Largemouth Bass into the Elota River in 1985, a year before it was to be impounded for irrigation purposes. Mexican authorities saw to it that those bass implants were left undisturbed for nearly five years. That allowed them to grow fat on shad and tilapia, which also were introduced by the government. The lake quickly became renowned for its sheer abundance of largemouth bass – and a place where 100-bass days per boat occur regularly.
Those plentiful bass have obviously grown up. With a year-round growing season and a growth rate estimated by Mexican biologists at an unbelievable 2 pounds per year, an enormous crop consisting of 6 to 12 pound bass, with several up to 18 lbs., now swim in these tropical waters. It has to be experienced to be believed!
A commercial fisherman found a world record Largemouth Bass “floating,” on El Salto—too bad he wasn’t there for pleasure and could have “reeled in” such a trophy. Just imagine an American Black Bass fisherman may be the next one to set an unbelievable new world record from Lake El Salto!
Because much of the fishing occurs in centuries-old submerged mesquite trees and cactus, it is almost futile to use anything less than 20-pound-test line. The best fishing action occurs in the upper half of the lake, where there are more than 30 islands, countless stands of flooded timber, and the majority of El Salto’s nearly 400 brush-covered points. Although the reservoir has some floating Hyacinths, the flooded brush and trees seem to harbor the most bass and attract the most attention.
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