Arizona Crappie Association
Lake Reports => Roosevelt => Topic started by: Art Chamberlin on January 15, 2013, 07:42 AM
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It's 14 degrees here at my house as I file this report and has been the last three or four mornings! There is still hope for old Roosie as my friend, Dave Nichols, fishing alone, boated 12 crappie Saturday, 12 more on Sunday, and 17 yesterday. He sent me pictures and they were big crappie! I don't have a lot of details but they were caught on the Salt end long line trolling. Due to a busy schedule I can't get out until Friday but I have a real bad case of the "want to's"......Art
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My biggest stringers of my biggest crappie have been caught when the air temps were below freezing. And between the second week of January and second week of February.
I'm just not real keen on fishing in the cold anymore...
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True, but when I go Friday it's supposed to be 70 in Phoenix........Art
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Great report Art - Thank You!
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The flood gates are open. I'm expecting a flotilla there by Saturday. Be sure and post your reports good or bad.
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I'll try to keep you guys posted. Bob, next week is pretty open for me so give me a call. We can use my rig and you won't have to bring yours, just the 16's...........Art
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interesting, it was 13 degrees yesterday at 0 dark 30 on the shore of roosevelt sitting in a duck blind :o
sounds promising just pray the GA does not show back up this spring :dontknow:
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The flood gates are open. I'm expecting a flotilla there by Saturday. Be sure and post your reports good or bad.
well said
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The flood gates are open. I'm expecting a flotilla there by Saturday. Be sure and post your reports good or bad.
Is that a bad thing? I thought the idea was to promote the sport. Get people out fishing. Ya know creating memories and stuff :dontknow:
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The flood gates are open. I'm expecting a flotilla there by Saturday. Be sure and post your reports good or bad.
Is that a bad thing? I thought the idea was to promote the sport. Get people out fishing. Ya know creating memories and stuff :dontknow:
I think it's great. My last good fishing trip at Roosevelt was February timeframe 1 or 2 years ago I can't remember - so maybe that's just the best time of year for that lake. Excited to get out there again soon.
I find it interesting that this guy was fishing out in that crazy cold front! That's a die-hard.
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We all think its great. I miss the old flotilla days. And I miss good reports from Rosey.
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The flood gates are open. I'm expecting a flotilla there by Saturday. Be sure and post your reports good or bad.
Is that a bad thing? I thought the idea was to promote the sport. Get people out fishing. Ya know creating memories and stuff :dontknow:
I think it's great. My last good fishing trip at Roosevelt was February timeframe 1 or 2 years ago I can't remember - so maybe that's just the best time of year for that lake. Excited to get out there again soon.
I find it interesting that this guy was fishing out in that crazy cold front! That's a die-hard.
Yeah, I think it was late feb for me when I got into some nice slabs a couple years ago. I am itching to get back up there. You guys know what all launches are open these days?
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I know that grapevine is out of the water
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Bobcat, badger--at windy hill
marina launch
cholla launch
and a few places to remote launch off the dirt
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correction I guess it is ringtail instead of bobcat ramp at windy hill
basically it is straight across from badger ramp on the same road in, lot less parking at ringtail than badger
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Thanks. Hopefully I can get up there soon and see what's going on. Haven't fished it since spring I think?
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Did I understand right? Is Grapevine ramp is closed??? SRP website with a link to "lake Levels" identifies Grapevine ramp having 5' of water and rising. Launching from Grapevine ramp to fish the salt end is closest. Can anyone tell me where the head of the lake is on the salt arm? I'm guessing it's close to grapevine.
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Last weekend the signs on the 188 said Grapevine was closed. Doubt that's changed. Windy Hill is the next one and it definitely is open (there are 2 ramps open there). Schoolhouse, the furthest down on the Salt end is WAY out of the water. Who knows how long it'll take that one to get back. Good luck and be sure and post a report. Tough fishing there lately "but you never know."
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the head of the lake is basically just northwest of school house launch there is a channel that runs up on the northeast side of the lake (the old river channel) that runs up past school house but is fairly shallow there is water above school house but real shallow and choked with trees
As far as grapevine buddy launched a flat bottom aluminum boat off the grapevine ramp (on your far left side) when you drive down the ramp and did not have to put the tow vehicle in the water but I don't think you could launch a deep vee boat of any size as that area below the ramp is a large flat. Ringtail and badger launch at windy hill are open but for some reason TNF has the dang dock out of water at ringtail and badger ramp has a small dock :dontknow: when SRP website showed a couple feet on the grapevine launch I drove down to it and it was still a dry flat out in front of the ramp :o
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Great information. Thanks for the updates. There is nothing like eyes on observed reports. Windy Hill is the logical place to launch from for Salt arm fishing. For an extended outlook, the weather is looking better for warmer days, which should equal better fish catching reports. I am planning on camping on the lake about March 15th ish, I'm hoping the fishing will have improved some and of course the weather is warming up more. The snow pack melt for the salt river end should be flowing in by then too. Should be some temp zone breaks in the water to try.