Well the fish are in the shallows! After a long winter I finally caught a bunch of crappie up in shallow water. Surface temps were 62 this afternoon and they were there in decent numbers. It wasn't non stop spawn style fishing but they were up against wood in water under 4 feet deep. Also caught 2 pickerel and 3 bass. One of the pickerel was 27 inches and put up a good fight, the others were small.

As much as I like casting for crappie I like verticle jigging more and went out to the main river for some hunting. Found a couple of deep water (15 feet) brush piles and jigged up a bunch of nice ones. Decided to slow troll the edges on my way back to the ramp and caught a few more. Ended up catching 25 crappie and kept 14. None were huge but decent size to eat.

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