Bartlett 2 day trip March 7th and 8th

[Fish Hawk]

Yall better think about figuring Rosey out before SCF or Team Cream Puff will smoke ya! 

 

[Fishless]

Yall better think about figuring Rosey out before SCF or Team Cream Puff will smoke ya! 

is that fishing or smoke coming out of the trolling motor

[Piscolli]

Yall better think about figuring Rosey out before SCF or Team Cream Puff will smoke ya! 

is that fishing or smoke coming out of the trolling motor

Ouch

[cousinlll]

Yall better think about figuring Rosey out before SCF or Team Cream Puff will smoke ya! 

You guys are waisting your time & energy - I'm already on the fish!  Can you say TWO PEAT       Repeat Repeat 

Sorry for poaching your thread Fishman!!

[FishMan]

This thread has gone everywhere. Ok, so due to some not so great events to an awesome friend, we lost our sleeping arrangement for this trip. Instead, I spent the day on Saguaro bed fishing for that other species of fish. Awesome day, 20+.......but the real news to report! is back behind the marina! we found about a dozen or so black crappie stacked up around some horizontal structure. Tried as I might to get one to strike, no luck. All in about 12 foot of water, could not see any nesting, but made me excited to see.

[cousinlll]

Very good job at getting us back on track with your report Tom!!  Interesting stuff right there....

[Fishless]

This thread has gone everywhere. Ok, so due to some not so great events to an awesome friend, we lost our sleeping arrangement for this trip. Instead, I spent the day on Saguaro bed fishing for that other species of fish. Awesome day, 20+.......but the real news to report! is back behind the marina! we found about a dozen or so black crappie stacked up around some horizontal structure. Tried as I might to get one to strike, no luck. All in about 12 foot of water, could not see any nesting, but made me excited to see.

as in "male crappie that were black"? or crappie staging, ya 12' of water is a little deep for spawning especially with the water still cool?

thanks for the report

[Piscolli]

I just hope that if folks start catching Crappie at Sag they release them and let them spawn.

[Fish Hawk]

I just hope that if folks start catching Crappie at Sag they release them and let them spawn.

+1 great news. thanks

[FishMan]

Let me see if I can enhance on what I said and answer everyone's question. The fish I saw were all suspended, we were in 12 feet of water, and they were holding about 6 feet down on a horizontal structure (brace holding dock structure apart).  There were beds under them, but they were bass beds, with bass in them. I ran and jigged a Curley tail through and over them about 20 times, and didn't get one to even flinch. There was probably 10-12 of them and they were very dark, just like the one I shared from last week in the Saguaro report, and yes I released him. They were actualy eating or picking things off of the grass/alge growing on the structure. Very cool to watch the behavior.