Not sure where you were at, but there are two large lakes west of camp Roberts off the 101. Now on the High desert, you are right in there aren't any fishing holes or really not many. It's been decades since I left out there back in 1977. Grew up out there with dad in the marines. After he retired and moved us to Barstow, not many wet spots there. Mojave narrows near Victorville, and the Colorado River, unless you went up into the mountains....