So whats trolling like around the nation?

[TapOut64]

each boat out has been limiting for the past 6 weeks. Most fish are in the 2 pound range

Let me make sure I understand you correctly. You're saying that 197 boats are pulling in 2lb crappie regularly? Wouldn't this make it the best crappie lake in America?

[Jumping Cholla Jigs]

Let me make sure I understand you correctly. You're saying that 197 boats are pulling in 2lb crappie regularly? Wouldn't this make it the best crappie lake in America?

Well for the past 6 weeks I'd say it very likely is as you say. We have some awesome crappie fishing and I grew up fishing slabs in the midwest. Go to this site The AZ Bass Zone :: Arizona bass fishing chat, news and information and do a search for "San Carlos" to check out other such reports. Many fish nearing 3 pounds also. Many of our lakes had been low due to the drought but in 2005 they all started to re-fill with Roosevelt reaching 100% of the new dam for the first time just this year. That flooded hundreds of acres of timber much of it for the first time ever. The crappie have been a little hard to target there because of all the miles of brush you can't get through to reach them but the ones you do catch are huge. I would put San Carlos, Roosevelt and Alamo up against most any eastern lakes for consistent large slabs anytime. Bartlett and Pleasant can be very good also but are stumbling right now for various reasons.

Here is one direct link to reports... http://www.azbasszone.com/forums/sho...ghlight=Carlos

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and... plenty more report with more being caught everyday. I know of no other lake right now matching it for size and quantity, do you?

[Quackrstackr]

Looks like a typical mid March thru April weekend on Jonathan Creek (KY Lake) to me.

[Gamblinman]

Wish I could spider-rig my seven rods in that lake. I'd be busier than a one-legged man in an butt kickin' contest!!

Nice fish!!

[luvpt]

Looks like a scaled up version of Lake Monticello in December when the Crappie hit the 55 ft water.

[Quicksilver1958]

Looks like the middle of December on Lake O the Pines

[Jumping Cholla Jigs]

Wish I could spider-rig my seven rods in that lake. I'd be busier than a one-legged man in an a$$ kickin' contest!!

Nice fish!!

Man would I love to spider rig out here but we would be strung up I think. The crappie grow year around out here so there is little reason for limits and they are not in any way threatened. Sure do taste the same though. The school all the boats are hitting is around a mile in diameter right now but it has been thinned a bit.

[crappieseeker]

Limits serve their purpose and once the rest of the world finds out, count on things slacking off in years to come. Weis Lake was the Crappie Capital of the world, many still consider it that. However when it became known for its huge crappie and huge numbers of crappie, people swarmed it and still do. Although it still produces alot of nice crappie, I have read reports where it is nothing like it once was. The same thing will occur there.

[Jumping Cholla Jigs]

The same thing will occur there.

I strongly doubt it and not because your incorrect in how many would love to hit our lakes super hard all of the time, just because we only have a few months to fish and then it's in the 100's plus in the shade and the lakes are deserted except for some night bass guys or the skiers. Last year we tried a summer night trip to Alamo in early Sept and when we got to the lake at dusk it was still 114 in the shade. Yeah we caught fish that night but we have not returned to do it again.

[Herewego]

You have some of the best crappie fishing anywhere. congrats.