I think the weather & water level fluctuations has both species out of sync.

No disrespect intended, but by "black crappie" are you talking about Black Crappie or are you talking about White Crappie males that are in their spawning colors ?? I ask because we caught a lot of White Crappie males on the banks last week & the week before :



If you look closely, there's one Black Crappie in this picture (top left corner), while all the others are White Crappie .... darker ones are males, lighter/normal colored ones are females.

Here's a Black Crappie male caught by my partner from week before last :