Thread: Need someone smarter than me

The crappie were easy in Texoma yesterday also. While the fish had color and were patterned in both spawn and pre-spawn pattern there were no eggs or very few left in the females I caught. There was more crappie fishing pressure on Texoma than I had seen in all the years I have lived here combined resulting in fish hitting the banks and fisherman pushing them off with sheer fishing pressure. There is the possibility that the fish that were beat off of the shallows are trying to finish spawning the eggs they have left or the sudden rise in lake levels and resulting lower water temps have confused the crappie. What ever the reason which I can only guess I caught crappie yesterday in what appeared to be a spawning pattern in 8 FOW and also caught them a few yards away in 32 FOW. Sometimes I can't explain what they are doing I just know I can catch them.

Skip How do you fish the hydrilla. We have tons of hydrilla. Its ruining good lakes.

Originally Posted by skiptomylu

Now let me add one thing here. Down here on Toledo Bend before our Hydrilla got in trouble we had a lot of it and this is a major factor in how long the crappie will be in water 10' deep or less. When the Hydrilla was plentiful I could catch crappie in this kind of water until the first week of June. However the last 3 or 4 years that has not been the case and early May it's about over. I long for our Hydrilla to make a great comeback, well I am praying for it, lol!

The dense vegetation lets them hang in shallow water longer!

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