We have been a little slow up this way. Trying to work with mother nature in December is sometimes a little hard. It was that way this morning. We launched and had high hopes. It was looking good till we got to our spot. Low and behold it had turned hard on us. What to do.We loaded up and went t another near by Pond. That turned out to be a good move. We didn't find any crappie but landed 17 small mouth. All very nice size.