Teamed up with Mac today, got on the lake @ safelight and tried long line trolling with no luck for the 1st hour, switched out to spider rigs and started catching some fish. Off the lake @ 1300 hrs with 19 slabs, the trollers were not feeling the love today. Quite a few folks gave up on trolling to try minnow rigs, best we spoke to had 3 fish. Post cold front seems to have shut down the jig bite. 4 fish around 2 lbs, very good quality on all fish. Most females had very bloody eggs, spawn seems very close. Water temp topped out @ 59. Very light bite, had to really watch the poles today. It was great spending time with Mac, it's been awhile.
Nice work Brian, congrats on the fish and for getting some good quality "float time" in. Stay on them for when I finaly get a day off.
Dang water back down to 59 degrees with a bigger cold rainy, windy storm due in this weekend with cool temps all the way into next week :angry4: :crybaby2: was going to hit it next Wednesday in front of the full moon coming thinking it would start but now it will probably throw everything back a week or so, no weather all winter and now when things are starting to rock and roll it hits :crybaby2: we need the moisture just wish it would of come early on :dontknow:
Way to go B.
Has anyone else noticed a pattern here?
FISH THE TWO WEEKENDS BEFORE ANY AZCA PUBLISHED EVENT. :toothy10: :laugh:
Great to have both Brian & Mac back on the water again! Nice job guys
Well done, glad you guys got out there and got some.
It was a great time that's for sure. With school and working full time, I rarely get a day off. But with Finals being on Monday and Tuesday Wednesday was a go for fishing! We had lots of strange looks and some interesting conversation as people trolled by. It's always funny to hear...."Look, they got ANOTHER one!" Spider rigging is a must when the bite shuts down! You don't need to use just minnows either, jigs work just as good when using the right size. Like Brian said, most other boats had 1-3 fish in the same area and we had 20 boats around us. Had I known we had 19 we would have stuck it out for one more!
Thanks for posting your report. Sounds like a great time and 19 isn't a bad number! LOL
I was pretty sure I was finally going to get back to Alamo only this time for a few days with my wife. We were planning on leaving Wed and fishing through Saturday, I was really looking forward to the time together. We have both been fighting the respiratory gunk that is going around and her a bad back! Plus I had to make a unplanned trip to Oregon to help my mother with some aging decisions (she is 91 and currently alone).
I thought alright, a few days to just relax, fish and enjoy some quality time with the Mrs.
Forecast for the next few days????????? Up to maybe 2 inches of rain, a foot to 18" inches of snow possible for the Flagstaff area????? AHHHHHHHH.....this sucks! :angry1: As bad as we need the moisture and as much I am happy for it, it is putting a damper on my excitement about Alamo. I will probably go ahead and go and hope for the best and just be happy to spend some time on the water but I am expecting a real slow down if the forecast comes close to being accurate.
What do you all think?
Quote from: azbohunter on February 27, 2015, 06:57 PM
Thanks for posting your report. Sounds like a great time and 19 isn't a bad number! LOL
I was pretty sure I was finally going to get back to Alamo only this time for a few days with my wife. We were planning on leaving Wed and fishing through Saturday, I was really looking forward to the time together. We have both been fighting the respiratory gunk that is going around and her a bad back! Plus I had to make a unplanned trip to Oregon to help my mother with some aging decisions (she is 91 and currently alone).
I thought alright, a few days to just relax, fish and enjoy some quality time with the Mrs.
Forecast for the next few days????????? Up to maybe 2 inches of rain, a foot to 18" inches of snow possible for the Flagstaff area????? AHHHHHHHH.....this sucks! :angry1: As bad as we need the moisture and as much I am happy for it, it is putting a damper on my excitement about Alamo. I will probably go ahead and go and hope for the best and just be happy to spend some time on the water but I am expecting a real slow down if the forecast comes close to being accurate.
What do you all think?
they keep moving back the main portion of the storm from saturday to Sunday and monday now :dontknow: some times the weather guys are spot on and other times they miss the forecast by a bunch as far as timing and amounts of moisture :dontknow: the one thing they are talking about is wind which is a pain on a lake. Only problem with Alamo it is a hell of a time commitment to drive there where as a bartlett or pleasant is only an hour or so away. If you go and weather is bad you relax at the camp site if they goof on the forecast you are ready to fish :dontknow:
Quote from: Fishless on February 28, 2015, 06:18 AM
Quote from: azbohunter on February 27, 2015, 06:57 PM
Thanks for posting your report. Sounds like a great time and 19 isn't a bad number! LOL
I was pretty sure I was finally going to get back to Alamo only this time for a few days with my wife. We were planning on leaving Wed and fishing through Saturday, I was really looking forward to the time together. We have both been fighting the respiratory gunk that is going around and her a bad back! Plus I had to make a unplanned trip to Oregon to help my mother with some aging decisions (she is 91 and currently alone).
I thought alright, a few days to just relax, fish and enjoy some quality time with the Mrs.
Forecast for the next few days????????? Up to maybe 2 inches of rain, a foot to 18" inches of snow possible for the Flagstaff area????? AHHHHHHHH.....this sucks! :angry1: As bad as we need the moisture and as much I am happy for it, it is putting a damper on my excitement about Alamo. I will probably go ahead and go and hope for the best and just be happy to spend some time on the water but I am expecting a real slow down if the forecast comes close to being accurate.
What do you all think?
they keep moving back the main portion of the storm from saturday to Sunday and monday now :dontknow: some times the weather guys are spot on and other times they miss the forecast by a bunch as far as timing and amounts of moisture :dontknow: the one thing they are talking about is wind which is a pain on a lake. Only problem with Alamo it is a hell of a time commitment to drive there where as a bartlett or pleasant is only an hour or so away. If you go and weather is bad you relax at the camp site if they goof on the forecast you are ready to fish :dontknow:
Guess my biggest concern is IF there is 2 inches of rain in the drainage that feeds Alamo, what is the lake going to be like? Have thought about Bartlett but I can do that as a day trip and if I am going to do a 3 nighter I would rather spend it at Alamo and hope for the best. Think I will just wait and see.....
We have also been in the back and forth dilemma but have decided we are going ahead and go up Wednesday and see what is there. Fish will be relocated but shouldn't take too long to figure out where they are hiding. But with the influx of cooler water they may be off the bite. Still no place I would rather spend my time so we are going unless things really fall apart. Never can count on the forecast, they even mess up on what happened yesterday let alone what tomorrow brings. See you on the water.
I think you have the right plan Tritoon!
If the rain is in buckets then that centennial wash can flood and it will Flood aguila and Wendon, it does not happen that often but when it does it takes out the roads in
Quote from: Fishless on February 28, 2015, 03:00 PM
If the rain is in buckets then that centennial wash can flood and it will Flood aguila and Wendon, it does not happen that often but when it does it takes out the roads in
I'll be watching the weather and news........if we get to that stage, I will be staying home :lol_hitting:
its gunna be beauty by Friday. and the bite will be on just for us and our pure hearts and good intentions. :glasses9:
Kind of crazy, Flood Warnings and it hasn't rained more than a 100th of an inch at my house in NW Glendale. Looking at active radar it looks as though there has been rain in the area of Alamo but I have not found any where to get current conditions out there. Go to the State Park site and current weather and it has a report for "Star Gazers" :sign0151:
Any one have any current rain info for that part of the state?
According to NOAA there has only been .20 inches total for the last 24 hours near Alamo.
Alamo lake has come up 3' since yesterday evening :o Wenden got only 3/4" of rain but on the wrong side of the mountain, smith peak got over 1" areas up near Yarnell and Bagdad got close to 2 1/2" of rain. Burro creek topped out at over 10,000cfs yesterday evening, right now big sandy river was over 17,000cfs :o santa maria river at 2000cfs right now big sandy still flowing at 13,500cfs :headbang:
Those rivers and creeks all come together and flow into alamo lake. Will have to see how much of that water makes it to the lake as it is a longgggggg ways down to the lake but with it coming up 3 feet since last night I am guessing it is going to come up a bunch more in the next 24hrs
I got a little under 1/2" of rain total
interesting verde river above horseshoe is flowing at 20,000cfs so that lake is going to fill quick and SRP may have to release water there into bartlett :dontknow:
Good news, thanks for the update Bruce. Maybe Alamo won't become the next San Carlos afterall.
Alamo up 4' now and flows still pretty decent up stream I am hoping for 10+' will have to wait and see
lake has come up 5' since it started to rise two days ago :headbang:
Bruce,
Holy crap 5' not 5" right?????
Quote from: IAMMAC on March 04, 2015, 09:20 AM
Bruce,
Holy crap 5' not 5" right?????
closer to 6' now lake came up another foot today
6' crazy either that lake is a setup such that small amount of rain at it's current volume can raise depth significantly or it really was a lot of rain up there.
Quote from: OneBlade on March 04, 2015, 06:01 PM
6' crazy either that lake is a setup such that small amount of rain at it's current volume can raise depth significantly or it really was a lot of rain up there.
a lot of rain 2 1/2"+ at the head waters of the santa maria and big sandy rivers not that much on the lake itself or here in the valley, verde is is still rocking yet salt and tonto have not had that much runoff guess the storm hit certain areas and left others quiet :dontknow:
plus that lake was not very big compared to other lakes in the state
So I'm assuming there will be a significant water color change along with water temp drop. No more shallow bite? Thoughts from all you Crappie Sensei's.....
I think it will be chocolate milk for awhile, should slow the bite down. Hopefully it will be great for the spawn if the lake stabilizes with all the new growth around the shoreline.
Quote from: wadefisherman on March 05, 2015, 08:36 AM
I think it will be chocolate milk for awhile, should slow the bite down. Hopefully it will be great for the spawn if the lake stabilizes with all the new growth around the shoreline.
I fished Thursday and Friday and in those two days I heard of one crappie being caught. The lake was "chocolate milk" and the water temp had dropped significantly, however in the two days that we fished the surface temp skyrocketed to 67, that dark water absorbs heat fast!
I am not sure what to expect, I am not the expert on Alamo (or any other lake) but I think the lake may pop soon, I also think that fishing could be tough just because the fish could be relocating into all the newly flooded stuff to spawn. I think it should be a great spawn year but success rates may be low just because of all the newly flooded cover.
I bet somebody is going to figure it out and really get into some good fishing in the near future though!