For sure no trouble in finding a place that looks like that on Cedar Creek, darn tree-filled puddle of water it is.

As for the curlytail type, I (almost) always use a 2" white on a 1/8 white jighead. I think the curlytails I was using at the time of the wonderful sucess was made by Yum, and I bought them at Wal-Mart in a little bitty baggie. I also bought those jigheads from Wal-Mart, but can't remember anything other than that they were 1/8". The depth I was catching them at varied. At first, when it was still kinda late in the afternoon (4-5 pm?), I was catching them right under the surface. Later in the evening, I began letting the jig sink for about 5 seconds before reeling. I was doing a reel-reel-jerk-stop-repeat kinda thing. It seemed like most of the fish were hitting in the "stop" of that combo. Most other times I have ever caught crappie, that was the best reeling variation I found. It seems that erratic jerking just gets 'em excited, and then the stop gives them a chance to hit. I wasn't really watching my line... just waiting for resistance through the reel, then setting the hook.

CP, I am appalled at you not having a boat. Have you always fished from the bank? I am amazed you have so much knowledge about crappie fishing just from being on the bank for so long. It kinda makes me wanna convince Dad to come to Cedar Creek just so we can take you out for a little ride. And, to make matters even worse, cp has to "swindle" a boat from his KID BROTHER. Ugh. :P

Yes, that is what crappie in Cedar Creek looked like LAST YEAR. On the two trips I made there this year, I didn't even catch any, so who knows. Sounds like most of them are much smaller than that, unfortunately.

Keep tearing em up, wday, and maybe you can take poor ol' cp and I out and give us some pointers. :D