I fished Mill Creek lake in central IL today, they were still deep and pretty tight lipped. Minnows were the only thing I could get them to bite, and they wanted it to sit there for about ten minutes before they would deign to nibble on it. All my fish were between 12-15 feet deep.

I'm still new to crappie fishing, and days like to day are so crazy to me. I could find big schools of crappie on the depth finder no problem, but I could only catch like 2-3 fish out of a school of hundreds. It's incredible to me that so many fish would turn up their nose at a live, struggling minnow right in their face.