Finally finding darkening male crappies up in bedding areas. Also pretty good numbers of smaller fish still sunning. Our city park lakes were walled as a WPA project back in the 30's. Recent rains have filled many of them to overflowing; so we have some pretty good pools at storm drains to play with. One has to work in and around overhanging trees and flooded brush in some places to take decent numbers of crappies. Dock shooting techniques work well in and under the overhang in some places, in others a reach to dip into holes in the brush is the ticket. Inch and a half tube was all I needed.

The big eaters (pike, muskie, bass) are pretty much done spawning and are feeding pretty heavily on the juvies in the shallows, often herding them into huge schools. The one I saw Wednesday evening had thousands of 2 to 4 inch crappies with a few perch, some cigar-sized walleyes, and some bluegills mixed in. The bluegills showed some size when they came from under the school. Wednesday afternoon at a different dock it was thousands of bluegills with some up to 8".