Quote Originally Posted by jjue1979 View Post
Sometimes it's a group of fish not crappie, and sometimes I'm misinterpreting the baitfish as something larger
That's exactly what happened when I snagged that shad. (The shad was probably 7" or so?) There were just tons of them that we thought were crappie but once I snagged that one shad, we were convinced they ALL were shad! Could have been the same other places as well, they way they just weren't interested or following jigs. But...I think a ton of them were schools of crappie that ALSO weren't interested in even following our jigs, much less biting!