Thread: spawn? for shallow lakes

I went fishing last nite, 5p - 9p. put out yo-yo's, and did some pole fishing with jigs. I caught a few keepers on poles, and a few keepers on yo-yo's. Fishing was still kind of slow. I couldn't keep those darn catfish off my minnows, either. The water is very stained, and still really shallow from the drought. (private lake, central arkansas, england area) water temp - 72 @5p, cooled down to 68 @9p. jigs were chartreuse roadrunner w/ white curly grub. Caught most of my fish around trees in 1 foot of water or less. Yo-yo fish were in 2-3 foot of water, 3-5 feet out from cypress trees. The interesting thing is most of my crappie were 11-13 inch range, (1 pseudo-slab, 14", 1-1/4lbs.) Only had 8 big enough to keep ( had around 8 small ones i turned back), but 7 of 8 were females, with clear yellow mushy eggs in them, and not many eggs left. I think these females were in the middle of spawning. This weekend had better produce a big cooler for me. Crappie on.:rolleyes: