Crankin Bandits in the heat today.

[cevans]

Got on the lake at 7:30 am and after 20-30 minutes of crankin in 10-12' of water near banks like last week,,no go,,so went to river channel,,and cranked down along it in 10-12' of water and after another 30 minutes, figured that if I zig zaged across the channel back and forth, fish were on the breaks of the channel and next 4 hours culled and measured out 10.5 to 14" limit. Also caught 6 yellow ringed perch of which one was 13.5" that I kept and you will see that fat sucker in the pic of the cooler. Caught 1 lg. mouth bass, and 6 yellow bass also as well as 40-50 other crappies below 10.5 were released. Long day so didn't take a pic of the fish all layed out. Water temp started at 76.5 and ended up at 1:30, 83.5. Very light wind out of the east. Temp cracked 90 by the time I got the boat on the trailer and road. Umbrella was used to break the high noon sun. In cleaning the fish, all but 2 of the largest females had spawned!!!!! I think that was why it was kind of a hit and miss day till I started the zig zagging across the creek channel in mid lake. Post Spawn crappies!