I am from Mississippi and anybody who cuts your tires because you are from out of state is a lop-eared, dumb butt, jack ass!!! That is just plain stupid and I hate that happened at all from the state I am proud to call my home. I am guessing the crappie in Missouri rarely get over 12 inches there or something that has caused the flood of fisherman here. I think we are in for a long stretch of 10-12 inch fish on the big 4 unless the corp allows the water level to stay higher. I can tell you right now buddy boy, if the water level hits the 254 mark or higher at Sardis during the spawn, there will be a large survival rate. I have been there several times this winter and the grass is well over head high in places where the water never got up to last year. 15 fish over 10 inches will be a short fishing trip if any survived the crankbait pullers and the trollers from the summer and the fall. We will see, I can't wait myself to feel the thump or watch the floater turn up sideways or something like that.