A few miles East of Vegas is Lake Mead. My understanding is: when the river was dammed up by the Hoover Dam, the backup of water created Lake Mead. It has since been stocked with game fish.

At a little pier, you can rent boats for everything from fishing to swimming and big house boats for a weekend on the lake.

The fish are so used to being fed, they swarm when anyone drops some popcorn into the lake. Fishing anyone?