San Carlos 4/5/2011

[JigNPig]

Lets get a new thread going. There has been a lot of fish taken in March. Not what everyone was hoping for, but even Rosey was a tough bite in March. Fish have to be spawning at different depths and different locations. Thats good also. Lake is low so that alone changes spawning sites. Lets just hope we don't lose the fishery completely this summer. We all know that anything can happen to the water levels in the spring, summer and fall. We've all read articles about them absorbing the eggs and not spawning at all. that's not happening. I am glad to see some small ones some times also. It shows there were some different year class spawns. Keep up the enthusiasm and TIGHT LINES.

[PhishingPhreek]

I love the insight on that and couldn't agree more.

For a number of years Fishless has been talking about Bartlett crappie absorbing eggs because SRP drops the water which in turn makes it difficult for the crappie to find a bed that will still be there by the end of the week. But I've been hearing some stories about some smaller crappie being caught there so it was exciting to find out that some crappie are still finding a way to spawn and continue to grow their population. Also happened to me at Rosey this weekend. I've never really caught any dinks (10' and under) but this weekend I had to have been fishing a school of nothing but.

I've recently been questioning San Carlos though. How does a lake get down to 3% in the fall/winter, but each year manage to produce limits to hundreds of boats on a daily basis?

[Fishless]

crappie started back up spawning at bartlett, for several years it seemed to fade even with water levels up or stable at bartlett, actually timed more when the 2 big fires were up around the lake? and you caught two size crappie big and magnum and never any smaller crappie and never caught them up shallow during the spawning time. this year may be tough as we are in the middle of spawning season and SRP is pulling 1200cfs out of bartlett and only 400cfs coming in from horseshoe and after talking to the former fisheries boss Jim Warnecke from g and f he indicated that much more than 2" per day drop of a lake will suspend spawning for warm water fish and bartlett is dropping 6-8" per day right now. Last year caught hundreds of smaller crappie up spawning in the spring after the lake stabilized after the wet winter