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Planning a Spring spawn crappie trip with the Boy Scouts...need advise
CamFisher:
Hello gang,
I am beginning to plan a 2-3 day trip to take my local boy scout troop fishing. There will be 10-15 boys, 14-16 year olds. Half are novice, other half have some experience. I would like to ask advice for what lake and approximate date would put these boys on the most fish? I'm sure the spawn would be best. If you need to private message me or email me (as to keep it secret) then my email is cam.fisher@gcu.edu.
As for me, my personal experience is mostly Rosey and San Carlos. For crappie, I have had great success in the Fall trolling for crappie at SC but I have always struggled to find them at Rosey- windy Hill area...but I have yet to fish the spawn in the early spring. Every time I fish Rosey (perhaps 5-6 times) I find the bass and cats...but not the crappie. Wherever we go, the boys will likely be paddling canoes and I assume fishing the coves/shorelines with jigs and minnows for spawning crappie. Would this be their best bet? Thank you for any insights you are willing to share.
Piscolli:
I think most of the guys here would say that pre-spawn is the best. The fish are feeding heavy in open water which makes it easy to catch them while trolling fairly shallow baits. Plus the fish are full of eggs/ milt which makes them weigh more.
Alamo is showing signs of pre-spawn now. Bartlett and Rosey should start by the mid/ end of next month.
I don't know much about fishing from canoes so I can't be specific about that.
Fish Hawk:
My .02 cents would be go to San Carlos. More accessible shore line to fish. I think fishing is going to be good there this year. When to go is the magic question.
sparkchaser:
Alamo would be my choice due to fact of such a large group. You could reserve a group site there that would have a bathroom at a minimum, and a covered ramada with a BBQ and limited power. I would target the one in area E.
https://azstateparks.com/alamo-lake/group-planning/group-sites
From there you could either shore fish or drop canoes in the water. I would plan to try and catch the spawn in spring.
Fishless:
WEATHER, that is the big if, with the way things are going this winter as Piscolli said things could start to happen in February and when the water temp gets up to 64 or so they move to spawn. If we were to get some moisture and cool temps it backs things off a lot. Usually early march things begin to happen but if we have some unusual cold wet weather it can delay till April sometimes.
One thing I am thinking if you go to San Carlos each kid will have to buy a permit and a boat permit? if you go to a state lake if the canoes are registered they are ready to go and the kids up to age 18 can buy a hunt/fish combo for $5 and fish all year :dance:
The other thing to keep in mind with canoes March is the start of our windy season any lake of size can be a little squirrely in a canoe in waves. Roosevelt in the spring has places you can launch remote on the end of the lake and stay out of the big water, Alamo has remote launching up lake with the same situation you can stay off the main lake.
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