Question about spawn

[VaCrappieMan]

I fished several places yesterday that I had been consistently catching some at but it just seemed to have died down. Was up in the creeks and even walked the bank back in there further no luck. Finally found some males in a cove with Christmas trees. They hadn't started fanning because fins were still perfect but my question is where are the females? I had been catching them up in the creeks and it's like they vanished.. Will they move back out deep? I am stuck on the bank so it's a little hard sometimes... Here is a pic of the fish they def are darkening up
for the spawn... Seems like the fish have a period of a couple weeks every spring where I have trouble finding them...