WOW!! were we surprised about several things yesterday. The first thing was how stained the water was in the Coal and Rock creek area, 2-3 inch visibility at best. Then the water temp was already 63-65 degrees in the creeks on March 14th. The biggest surprise of all was that there weren't any cooperating crappie up in the creeks with those water temps.We have fished these areas for years and can't ever remember crappie not being up in these creeks when the water temps got above 55, much less 65. My journal showed that also. We talked to 3 other boats and they said the same thing. We fished from 1100-1445 in this area and had 1 crappie that was 3 inches long. We finally had enough and moved out toward the main lake area and found a little clearer water, maybe 5-6 inch visibility. We marked some brush in 10-14 fow and immediately started catching fish. We fished until 1830 and ended the day with 25 keepers, biggest ones were around 13inches with most being 10-11 inches. Electric chicken, Blk/pink, and red/char were the best colors. I am going to give it a few days and head back down on Monday to see if it clears up any. The water temps are right, there must be some other reason why they are not in the creeks yet. That is why they still call it fishing!!

Odie