next time you go ....... try the pallett/stake beds areas, marked on the map. The crappie should be well on their way to spawning beds, by now ... so I doubt those were Crappie in 30' of water (if they were suspended any deeper than 10').
I had every intention of going this weekend, but circumstances prevent it.

I've caught several Crappie from the stakebed buckets just out from the rock riprap at the parking lot of the dam ramp. All of them were <6" long. I even caught a few Blacknose from there (I was fishing from the bank/riprap).
It will be my intention to release ANY Blacknose I catch, even if it means not keeping any Crappie ... at least until the population gets to a greater size (length).
I've been hearing some second hand reports of "meat hogs" taking buckets full of undersized Crappie from Cedar Creek .... as well as reports of many anglers caught with undersized Bass in their livewells. This does not bode well for Cedar Creek. People need to understand that this lake is very young, and needs time to produce fish of quality size. We can only hope that these people will be caught and fined, to the point where a catch of undersized fish won't be worth the possiblity of being caught.

Don't get caught up in the "North side" theory, to the extent that it stops you from fishing the creeks in the South end. The lake is small, and the shallow banks will warm fairly fast ... even in the Southern portion. The Northern "banks", of the South end of the lake, will receive as much Sun as any other part of the lake ... and may warm a few degrees more, & faster, than the Southern banks. The Black Crappie probably won't use the rock bed areas ... they're more naturally oriented to weeds. With all that moss & weed growth, I'm in hopes that it will afford the Crappie a good chance of survival and growth potential.

The "introduction", or lack of complete eradication, of Gizzard Shad has all but doomed the Redear's (shellcracker) potential for trophy size. It may help the Bass/Catfish/Crappie population ... but the other Sunfish species will be less likely to grow all that big. The Bass/Catfish/Crappie will utilize the Shad as a foodsource, rather than the young Sunfish ... allowing them to potentially overpopulate and stunt.

I had high hopes that Cedar Creek would become a good Crappie lake, since it's not more than an hours drive for me. I can only hope that ethical anglers, like us, will prevail. ........ luck2ya ....... cp