Saguaro August 28 2025

[FishMan]

My graph kept lying to me...these look like crappie mixed in with bluegill. Turns out they are giant bluegill mixed in with normal bluegill. The big ones all weighed in between 0.90 and 0.98 pounds...just couldn't get one above the 1 pound mark. Many Yellows and Large Mouth also caught...no Catfish this trip. I know this is a crappie page, and trust me, I'm trying to catch them. Feel free to add a comment if and where you have ever caught a crappie at Saguaro.

[OneBlade]

Thanks Tommy dialed in.

[Onetime]

I've caught crappie at Saguaro Lake here where I put the red circle is on this map.

[FishMan]

Intersting OneTime...I've caught many Largemouth over on that point, were the trees are submerged. I'll give it a shot next time out.

[Fishless]

You might ck out the habitat map from g and f. They ave put Christmas trees in Saguaro several years ago and also Georgia cubes and wood porcupine structures that might hold crappie?

https://azgfd-portal-wordpress-pantheon.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/archive/Saguaro-Public-Map-2022_habitat.pdf

[Onetime]

Cool beans,

That map is from 2021-2022. AZGFD also has (Habitat location GPS enabled files) too. Never used them before but could have more updated info.

Also, found tree piles along the west bank between the dam and marina. Think they were something like 30' out and 20' down. Never found crappie on them when I went by, but they are there still in a Christmas tree shape.

[FishMan]

I've uploaded the Game and Fish files, they are great and very accurate. I have them both on my Garmin and Hummingbird. But love hearing everyone's history. The only 2 crappie I've ever caught there were both while bed fishing for bass and having a male crappie protecting the bed along with a male bass.

[Onetime]

FishMan, interesting, in your 2nd pic, that is a Warmouth...

"male crappie protecting the bed along with a male bass"

Maybe that is where the Warmouths come from - bass acting like horny goats?

[FishMan]

Negative on the warmouth, just a giant bluegill and some of them just have amazing colors...here are a few more of the same species.