This is my theory...(and I'm stickin to it)...

I've talked to dozens of crappie fisherpeople on the water and in the bait shops and byways the last 2 weeks (I've been on vacation, fishing every day)...and most all of them are completely discouraged with low catch numbers...

IMO...these herds of 40lb fish cruising above our crappie is the sole reason no one is catching the numbers of crappie as in the past...

Our comparatively small crappie are scared to death to come out of the brush because these massive beasts are swarming in the thousands right above the crappie's head...

A crappie (or any other species) doesn't know these massive cruising herds of gigantic fish are plankton eaters...

If I were a crappie... I wouldn't come out of the brush either....

Rickie