Crappy Fishing
When I moved to Arizona from Oregon, I was really looking forward to fishing the 4 Salt River Lakes just north east of where I live (Saguaro, Canyon, Apache, and Roosevelt).
We made a trip to Saguaro the first week we moved here and it was horrible... Dead shad, crappie, and bass covering every inch of the shore. It stunk 1/2 mile before you got to the water. We also found huge amounts of dead fish at a local urban lake where I used to live in Tempe. Golden Algae is apparently to blame. All the lakes have had fish kills except Roosevelt, because it is the first lake in the chain and the algae can't flow upstream. Apache Lake used to be one of the best smallmouth lakes in the west. Now the AZGFD is having a hard time finding any at all!!
Check out this guy's experiences and theory (raw sewage being dumped in the lakes)...
http://www.bajogrande.com/canyonlaketruths.htm
http://www.bajogrande.com/CanyonLakeRaw2.html
http://www.bajogrande.com/canyonlaketruthsIII.html
http://www.bajogrande.com/canyonlaketruthsIV.html
There are two lakes (Pleasant and Bartlett) that are north / northwest that are still good and we will have to focus on them for the time being. It's still too hot to be fishing any of these lakes anyway. We will probably be heading up further north for some trout before too long.
Up on the Mogollon Rim for instance --- which is discussed in this forum on the AZOD website. I found a post full of Rush fans! talking about the Rim. Rush is my favorite band and it's cool to see some fellow Rush nerds also share my love of fishing and camping:
http://www.azodchat.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6328
We made a trip to Saguaro the first week we moved here and it was horrible... Dead shad, crappie, and bass covering every inch of the shore. It stunk 1/2 mile before you got to the water. We also found huge amounts of dead fish at a local urban lake where I used to live in Tempe. Golden Algae is apparently to blame. All the lakes have had fish kills except Roosevelt, because it is the first lake in the chain and the algae can't flow upstream. Apache Lake used to be one of the best smallmouth lakes in the west. Now the AZGFD is having a hard time finding any at all!!
Check out this guy's experiences and theory (raw sewage being dumped in the lakes)...
http://www.bajogrande.com/canyonlaketruths.htm
http://www.bajogrande.com/CanyonLakeRaw2.html
http://www.bajogrande.com/canyonlaketruthsIII.html
http://www.bajogrande.com/canyonlaketruthsIV.html
There are two lakes (Pleasant and Bartlett) that are north / northwest that are still good and we will have to focus on them for the time being. It's still too hot to be fishing any of these lakes anyway. We will probably be heading up further north for some trout before too long.
Up on the Mogollon Rim for instance --- which is discussed in this forum on the AZOD website. I found a post full of Rush fans! talking about the Rim. Rush is my favorite band and it's cool to see some fellow Rush nerds also share my love of fishing and camping:
http://www.azodchat.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6328
posted by John at 4:32 PM
1 Comments:
Crappy Fishing, Haw Hah! (think simpsons voice) That sucks about the stinky dead fish in the lakes. For optimal results you need to be there when the sun gets up to cast some slimy sluggos squiggling on the surface stealthily sneaking stainless steel sharpies in their midst awaiting a slam from below by the hellish monster largemouth bass! www.toothycritters.com/sluggo.html
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