Friday 5s - Top Five Facts About Anglers Inn at Lake El Salto
January 8th 2024 6 pm
From Billy Chapman, Anglers Inn International Founder and Owner
- Lake El Salto covers 27,000 acres with over 45 miles of rugged shoreline when full and was impounded on Sierra Madre Mountains' Elota River in the 1980s.
- Lake El Salto is located 800 miles south of the US border but less than 90 miles from Mazatlán International Airport.
- Lake El Salto was stocked with Florida strain largemouth bass in 1985 shortly after being built by Billy Chapman and his father.
- The biggest bass caught on Lake El Salto weighed nearly 19 pounds.
- Lake El Salto has been proclaimed as the best trophy bass lake in the world by the editors at Bassmaster Magazine, ESPN, Outdoor Life and many others.