Arizona Crappie Association
Lake Reports => San Carlos => Topic started by: OneBlade on March 31, 2018, 07:16 PM
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Headed to San Carlos Saturday 3/31 with Ray (Yogi). Left house 5:45am and already getting light. Got to Circle K in Globe and 4 people in front of us for licenses - thinking we should have left much earlier. Got to lake and geez seemed like a lot of trucks at the ramp parking already. On lake maybe 8:30am and fished near Soda Canyon launch area and picked up fairly quick 3 in the first couple hours. Headed up lake thinking we'd see large flotilla but mostly saw a few boats spread out. Not sure where all the boats were. People camping on shore as well. Ended up with only 6 crappie and called it quits when the wind picked up around 2. We returned all crappie back to the lake - have enough fish in the freezer.
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Any crappie up near shore Matt casting to them?
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Any crappie up near shore Matt casting to them?
Yes, that's primarily what we did. While I had a vertical rod out front trolling it was just there as a 2nd rod. We spent our time very slow trolling an area and casting jigs right to shore. We also went into a cove way up lake and slowly moved around the visible sticks in 6 foot water casting everywhere next to trees. I am thinking if you find the right spots, they will still be shallow. Water was 66deg. The flotilla up lake were in 12-20ft water (I think) spread out I'm not sure perhaps there were some boats killing it that way I don't know. Didn't really talk to but one other boat and they weren't too talkative.