Thread: Spawn question

Depends where you were fishing...... last year was messed up on the big G and the spawn was not very good and it was not early. Lot of fish were still with eggs in early may and re asorbing them. This yr they seem tohave had a good spawn with most of the larger females having already spent most of their eggs leaving the black males behind to tend shop. The 9 to 10 inch girls are laying probably this week here and it looks to be good with no excess water or temperature drop. Those you were catching last year were probably pre-spawners ,again depending on where you were fishing and the temperature of the water. Black Crappie like to sspawn in 62 to 66° water but the White crappie will spawn later and likes 65 to 70° water in shallow stump timber areas. The water has been pretty much between 62 and 70 the last 8 days except for the 2 days the temps dipped down into the low 30s last week.

Fished Pickwick several days the last two weeks. The whites have not layed out yet. They looked like they had swallowed baseballs. Did clean some and the eggs were turning bloody and thinning. noticed yesterday a significant change in the thinness of the eggs. They are about to spew.

Down in my neck of the woods we didn't even get to fish the spawn last year due to high water in the woods all across the delta, year before also.

Whites haven't spawned on Guntersville yet either !

everything about over on Weiss.

This has be one of the worst spring's I can remember. We caught them but it happened fast.

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Well bring on dock shooting

Water temp at my home lake is in the mid 70s now. We caught a bunch of males in shallow water back in the first week of March and then a couple of cold snaps slowed the bite to a stand still. Went ten days ago and almost got skunked. The fish we marked were a bit deeper - suspended at 5-7' in 8-12 FOW. They were closed mouths though.

going tomorrow and don't know what to expect.