I fished yesterday, exclusively for crappie. I wound up catching small male dink crappie, and a couple of decent females. I decided (since I'm off this week) to do some moonlight yo-yo'ing. I only put out 8 yo yos, because i didn't want to have to manage too many, chase down every dink that zips up, etc. I caught a few off the yo yos, and a few pole fishing at the same time early last night. The bites were very subtle, & a few I didn't even feel. technique: jig pole tightlining w/ a green/chartreuse jig tipped w/ either crappie nibbles, or a minnow. The fish I caught would start swimming sideways with the jig, & I noticed that they were doing the same to the yo yo's also. A few had fish on them, & weren't even tripped. ( dinks) Anyway, I got up this morning, & it was the same pattern. at 530, no fish on, & by 630, I had caught 4 on the dawn bite. It was the same situation, very little strike, if any. I wound up with 9 crappie total, not including the 8 or so dinks I caught during the night. Here is a pic of the mess of fish.


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Here is me holding the 2 biggest ones. They were decent 1 to 1.5 lb fish, but I didn't weigh them.


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Interestingly enough, most of the fish were female, and every single female had very runny eggs in them. It sure seemed like they were up spawning, just not very interested in feeding. Water temps here last night got up to 70, then cooled off to 65 this morning. no wind to speak of, (maybe light southeast breeze). Anyway, I've still got the rest of the week to continue hunting them down for their new home, camp maytag (freezer).