Growing up on truman, we had a couple of spots we fished in the cold but all in all, we didnt winter crappie fish much
Now, I'm fishing the jackson county lakes and Smithville a lot. This past saturday on Longview, I was able to find a lot of fish on the side scan, and then get over them with the di. They were holding about 16-20 feet down, in 30-40 feet of water. We were just drifting at .2mph with the wind and we managed to catch 6-8 dink crappie, and 3 big white bass. If we stayed in one spot with the trolling motor, we couldn't get bit. Double jigs and most fish were caught on black/chartreuse. What could we have done differently? Why we we only catching drinks, when there are plenty of good fish in that lake? Thanks for any and all thoughts.