Some very helpful info!


First-

Yes, in my original description, we were targeting walleyes. We did another trip since then with even worse results, skunked! However, judging from the above info it sounds like while I was moving diff areas fairly quickly, I was NOT fishing diff types of water. We vertical jig'd almost the entire time- in similar depths/ structure types. But I was seeing "fish", so I felt it was a good idea. We did try 3 ways with stickbaits before we left- but it was in similar depths- 20-30ft.

I did try to switch to crappie after a few hours of skunked, but I just didn't do a very good job of finding good water to fish so it quickly seemed like wasting time. ( We fished in one of the west coves/ creek inlets Crappie pappy mentioned, trying to cast and slowly retrieve jigs close to the bottom around standing timber. I had some minnows left from last week and I rigged a couple slip bobbers up and briefly tried bobber fishing, but the wind made that less than enjoyable so we didn't stay long) I didn't make use of my sonar at all in that cove to try to find structure/ fish, which annoyed me- I had zero confidence I might catch anything there. But- I wasn't too sure where to go for crappie, all I could assume was most likely cover/structure near entrance of a creek, in 15-30ft water. There seems to be VERY few brushpiles, logs etc in this lake, atleast from what I've seen.

The main way we caught crappie last year was pulling cranks in open water.