Slammed the Crappies with the Bandit Crankbaits today!

[cevans]

Went to my fav. bank and longlined jigs today for 600 yds and didn't catch but one dink...so switched rods with the Okuma DX 20 line counter reels loaded with 20 lb power pro yellow braid up with bandits and hit deeper water 10-14' deep along creek channel, and for 5.5 hrs slammed the crappies catching maybe 80, plus 6 bass, and 3 yellow perch,,biggest perch I kept was 13.5" and kept a limit of crappies all 10" to 14", and the 1 perch..cleaned them this afternoon and only 6 were males,,3 of the females had spawed out,,several were ready to drop,,most tho eggs were not ready. Water temp at 8am was 62.5 and by 2pm when I quit,,it was cracking 70 or more in quiet areas of the lake. Fish slammed the 300 bandits and I changed colors about a dozen times...it didn't make much difference what color I was using as they wanted it and slammed me for about 5.5 hrs. Some of the best cranking I have done in the past couple of years. Plan on taking the wife tomorrow and let her try cranking for her first time ever so will be kinda not fishing too much myself...lol as I really want to have her enjoy the cranking. This weather is what we needed as the fish is really turning on. I had the bandits about 1.5 ft off the bottom and was moving about 1.6 to 1.8 mph. My fav. colors were hot pink, mad cow,,and orange crawdad,,,but they hit everything I tried for other colors.