{"id":1539,"date":"2019-03-19T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/crappie\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2019-03-19T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:31:09","slug":"more-fingerling-crappies-into-roosevelt-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/crappie\/more-fingerling-crappies-into-roosevelt-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"More fingerling crappies into Roosevelt Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early March, Roosevelt Lake received another welcomed stocking of fingerling crappies to bolster the already existing population.<\/p>\n<p>This popular game fish has been a major lure for thousands of winter visitors to the Arizona sunshine desert climate in years gone by.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason the numbers of crappies in the lake made a significant decline more than 10 years ago, which likewise directed anglers to other lakes in Arizona and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>During the months of April and May it was common to see upward to 100 boats in the Tonto or Salt arms slow trolling for crappies.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paysonroundup.com\/outdoors\/more-fingerling-crappies-into-roosevelt-lake\/article_230c62ae-3071-5e9a-9e54-ae85b0707c67.html\">More fingerling crappies into Roosevelt Lake<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1540 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/03\/5c8bfd52b8723.image_-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/03\/5c8bfd52b8723.image_-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/03\/5c8bfd52b8723.image_-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/03\/5c8bfd52b8723.image_-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/03\/5c8bfd52b8723.image_-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/03\/5c8bfd52b8723.image_.jpg 1662w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Wyatt Massey, 10, helps stock fish with Kirk Russell.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Photo courtesy of Curt Gill\/Arizona Game and Fish Department<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early March, Roosevelt Lake received another welcomed stocking of fingerling crappies to bolster the already existing population. This popular game fish has been a major lure for thousands of winter visitors to the Arizona sunshine desert climate in years gone by. For some reason the numbers of crappies in the lake made a significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":1540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/crappie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/crappie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/crappie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/crappie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/crappie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/crappie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/crappie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/crappie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/crappie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/crappie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/crappie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}