jjwilli1
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If you're catching 2-3lb small mouth bass pretty consistently that is dang good fishing in my opinion!! What part of the river did you fish?
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That water level does look pretty high compared to normal, but at the same time it still looks pretty darn clear! Were you guys purposely fishing for cats or was that the only thing biting? Also, what part of the river did you fish? I am heading up this weekend to hopefully get on the small mouth bite that should be picking up soon so any further information you could share would be awesome. And to answer your question a lot of people do fish the white river but most the fish pulled out of there dont have much size but you can usually do pretty well half a mile or more up from where it converges. I see more rattlers and bears up the white river then I do on the black so that may be a deterent to some.
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Well I'm only really interested in how the fishing is so got any "recent" stories of how the bite along the river is??
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Thanks Ed that's good info! I'll probably stay SE of the bridge, hopefully the fishing has picked up a bit! I know all about the bears and rattlers they don't bother me much, they both taste really good though
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About 5-10 miles before Seneca Lake and Salt River Canyon there is a unmarked service road heading East into the San Carlos Res, there are about 4 tanks (Highway Tank, Upper Highway, Canyon, & Sycamore Tank) within a couple miles of the highway. Does anyone know if these are stocked or has anyone fished these with success? Specifically for small mouth? I do not have the proper 4x4 vehicle right now to go deep into the mountains to my usual fishing tanks so I need something closer to the highway. Any info would be greatly appreciated!
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So we hit up quite a few tanks this weekend, most of them had very stained water from the runoff, the water was just a muddy milkshake so fishing was terrible. At a couple of the tanks me and my buddy caught about 30-40 bass In a few hours but not a single fish was over 10 inches long. These are what we call stunted tanks, which is when there are too many fish in a small body of water but not enough food to go around, so 99% of the fish will never grow. The only way to fix the problem is to kill off half the fish population, and until that happens 99% of the fish in that tank will never grow past 12 inches, a fish could be 5 years old and only 10 inches long. However, if you kill off half the population those 10 inch fish will be 2-3 pounders the following season. Unfortunately I dont see the San Carlos wildlife department doing this or allowing anyone else to do it either. Sucks but the fish are starving in stunted tanks so will bite anything you throw, fun for the kids and girls...
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Dan if you dont mind sharing with us which tank did that string of LG mouth come from, and how long ago? Thanks,
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Great thanks guys, Im going to hit up Upper Highway and Brushy Basin Tanks then! Hopefully can pull a string of LG Mouth like Apache7mm
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Yeah I am hearing the same thing, I guess now the bigger deeper ponds are self sustaining but that no small mouth are in those ponds only large mouth, cats, and some trout. I find that really odd since I have caught small mouths in ponds up there before. Guess I will have to check it out for myself...
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Small mouth will bite anything you throw into the Black River!
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Which Lake?
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Bonecollector do you happen to know of any other stocked tanks close to main highways on the Res?
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