Big Mac Tank is a reservoir in Arizona, near Maricopa County.
Big Mac Tank is a reservoir in Maricopa County, Arizona and covers about 2.5 acres, reaches about 11.8 feet at its deepest point and holds roughly 12.9 acre-feet.
Big Mac Tank is small water, so a careful lap around the bank can show most of the useful cover. With little deep water in Big Mac Tank, weeds, wind, and water color can matter more than depth alone.
Fish listed for Big Mac Tank include Bluegill, Channel Catfish, Green Sunfish, and Largemouth Bass.
When bluegill are the target on Big Mac Tank, use a small jig, worm, or tiny plastic around green weeds and protected pockets.
While looking for largemouth bass on Big Mac Tank, work a soft plastic, jig, or spinnerbait around weeds and protected cover.
A useful channel catfish plan on Big Mac Tank is to fish cut bait or a nightcrawler on the bottom along a channel edge or warm flat.
When the bite is slow on Big Mac Tank, start where two things meet: weeds and open water, rock and mud, a point and a drop, or clear water and dirty water; fish that edge at more than one depth before leaving it.
Keep the first check on Big Mac Tank simple: early in the year, protected water and the first warm afternoon can be the best clues; as the water heats up, check deeper edges without assuming every fish is on the bottom; cooling fall water often makes points and firm banks useful again.
While fishing Big Mac Tank, a medium spinning rod, 8-pound line, a small box of jigs, a few crankbaits, and a simple bottom rig cover most situations; change depth or speed before changing every piece of tackle.
At Big Mac Tank, record the wind, water color, productive depth, and cover after a bite; those four notes are more useful on the next trip than a long list of spots that did not produce.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.