Nice Limit today

[cevans]

Got on Lemmon at 7:30 this morning, went to the spot I found them Sat. and started cranking as lake was mirror calm, no breeze, pure sun, water temp started out at 65 and by 1pm it was 73 and at noon the wind picked up finally to about 10 mph. All morning in the too calm water that was clearing finally even tho it was still muddy in areas, I pecked away and by noon had 16 in the box all 10 to 14 inches. Last year, never caught one 14" crappie and this year, I have 3 now. Todays pig weighted 1lb 10 oz. and was full of eggs. Went the breeze finally kicked in at noon, in that 300 yd spot, I must have caught 30 fish and finally limited out at 1:30 as they were on booth sides of the creek channel in 10-14' of water on the break, and once again, after trying a dozen diff. colors, purple/chartruese 300 bandits were the only thing they would hit. All 25 keepers were females,,not a male in the bunch! I also lost 6 good fish as they just never hammered the cranks very hard and were barely hooked with the treble hooks of the crankbaits. Fish were very finnicky to say the least. I also tried shallow but nothing would hit, even jigs. Also, speed was 1.6. Any faster or slower they wouldn't hit. Several boats fishing submerged cover near the banks and spider rigging with minnows weren't catching many if any keepers either as I had 4 boats stop me and ask how I was catching them. Its definitely a screwie spring but will go back and see how they move as sooner or later, I should catch them where I always have along the banks in the shallow flats near weed beds but they are definitely not ready to spawn as the eggs aren't even ready in the females I cleaned today. I also ran couple of miles of creek channel, and didn't catch one fish either, so I don't have the answer as to why they are staged in one area. Weather bug says more chances of storms/rain for Thurs thru Sun. Just what we need. Friends of mine are nailing good gills/redears in strip pits near Linton, and they are not seeing any on the beds yet either. They are catching them in deeper water but a bunch at a time too. Good luck fishing.