I didn't have a lot of time tonight so I went out to Glendale to see how I'd do. Based on advice on this forum, I was finally able to land some crappie. I tried jigging standing timber, but I didn't have any luck with jigs tipped with minnows and kept getting snagged. Then I remembered a PM I received saying they would never pass up horizontal cover above the thermocline in the summer.

I found an isolated brush-pile in 16-17 FOW' that I could see had fish above it. I ended up catching 9 Black Crappie off that pile by vertically jigging a single pole in hand. The fish ranged from 6'' to 10''. Since I'm new to crappie fishing, I was pretty happy with that. I kept the three above 9''.

Hopefully I can repeat this strategy the next time out and see if I can find some more spots to try.