Quote Originally Posted by mrdux View Post
We caught 20 keepers on KY Lake Monday before the lake lice blew us off the water. A large % of those were females that were still loaded with eggs. One thing we noticed was the eggs are almost liquid, no solid structure to the egg sack like one would have seen earlier. I'm really afraid the later rising water temps and the high, unstable water levels have caused them to start to re-absorb the eggs and not spawn.
With the eggs in that condition, I'd say your fears are well founded. We can only hope that those few brave fish that spawned early, had a good percentage of their fry survive. I think most all the major lakes in Ky, that suffered through the high water & yo-yo temps, probably didn't have much in the way of a "successful" spawn ... at least not for Crappie, anyway.

... cp