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Show Fishing Best at Lake Mead LAS VEGAS, NEV. Five hun-dred hun-dred feet up near-by desert mountainsides where goats and iackrnbbits once struggled for ex-istence ex-istence is to be found today some of the best fresh-water fishing in the world. While most of the country's fishing sites are snowed in or closed for the season. Lake Mead, the man-made body of water stretching 115 miles from Hoover (Boulder) dam to Grand Canyon, continues to produce bass, blue gill, perch and catfish In fabulous numbers. They are so plentiful that the season is open day and right the year around. For 13 years now, since the reservior started filling in 1935, fishermen have come to take ''ally limits of 10 bass, some weighing 12 to 15 pounds; 25 catfish, cat-fish, and 20 crappie, perch and blue gill. |