Quote Originally Posted by Mo'nBack View Post
I don't like chiming in on spawn posts because the experts (that have been crappie fishing for less than 5 years) always want to argue about it, but they fatten up during the winter much as deer before the rut, and then the bite is mostly guarding the beds during the spawn. I know this will spark WW3, but this is what I've seen and believe. I'm not a marine biologist though.

I'm not a biologist myself, but I believe the same as Mo'nBack. If you want to feel the bite of feeding crappie, move out to where the females are holding prior to depositing eggs and you will find it. The males are irritable and don't like anything in the nest. Put on a 1.5" Yum crawfish, throw it in where you think a big male is fanning a bed and hang on! I also like to drag Charlie Brewer jigs on a standing head in there. Either way, you will get some violent strikes.