Found eggs

**NIMROD** · 07-11-2021, 02:48 PM

Crappie only spring spawners here . i catch hundreds ever month of the year . They are always in some stage of building egg sacks . Biologists tell most places spawning occurs once each year but can be spread out over several weeks sometimes . Been several people from time to time ask about fall spawns but biologists have told me it don't happen here .

Been discussed many times on here . https://www.crappie.com/crappie/main...0the%20process.

**hdhntr** · 07-20-2021, 09:18 AM

on a private lake I once owned for a decade the BG would be on different spawning beds from april thru august and biologist I spoke with said crappie can do it different times of year and have seen black spawn different time than whites.

one lake in my home region they were done on all bigger lakes by mid may except one and we had the most incredible spawning run all the way thru first week in june. I was lucky enough to get the 411 on it and went several times thru that first week in june. but if some of the crappie guru's on here say they will do it thru most of year and they fish one heck of a lot more than I will believe it.

**NIMROD** · 07-21-2021, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by Kevin22

Caught a big mess of bluegills the other day that were loaded with eggs. Thought they were full of food, never seen it this late before. I think the fast warm up this spring screwed up a lot of fish. Water temp went from 50 to 70+ in a week here.

Up here in IA/IL we do not get multiple spawns. Our water usually rises quickly from 40-60 in two weeks mid may, then 70+ by june, then 80s july/august, and will fall from 70 to 40-50 in a week or two in sept/oct depending on weather. Just isnt right up here for multiple spawns.

While eggs will hatch without light, they need to be clean (no silt) and the temp has to be correct. Two degrees off on water temp will change the development of the eggs/fry. Crappies cant spawn in 80deg water, not successfully that is. The whole sunlight thing is for water temp, more hours of sun means more stable water temp and less swings at night. If that water falls to 50deg at night the fry will not develope.

Bluegills spawn every full moon in warm months

**Kevin22** · 07-21-2021, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by NIMROD

Bluegills spawn every full moon in warm months

Not around here. I'm sorry but they just don't. I've been fishing bluegills for almost 30 years and never seen "ready" eggs past early June until now. They start building eggs for next year pretty quickly, but that is not what I am talking about. Totally different than you guys down south. We have a short growing season and very short spawn seasons for all species, which is why our fish are slow growing and smaller. A 10" crappie up here is 6-7 years old, a 14" can be 12-15 years old.

Where I also fish in Minnesota, they have adapted a 10 bluegill limit as they are trying to get more 9-10" fish in the lakes. In their studies they found 15+ year old bluegills that were 9" long, and it is not from over populating.. its because of the short growing season when 5 months of the year the lakes have ice on them. I witnessed the shortest bluegill spawn I've ever seen up there this spring, I watched males build beds on monday, spawn on tuesday and weds, and the females be post spawn and off the beds on thurs. Thurs/fri we caught spawned out female bluegills all day long and never saw one with eggs. These beds were 100-150 bed patches, unlike anything I have ever seen in my life. Hundreds and hundreds of females staged just off them, spawned at once and done two days later. I have also never caught a female bluegill with eggs there in july in 26 years of fishing it.

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