I don't know how much it rained last Friday night but the lake was still rising. We fished 8 hrs on Saturday and we had one of the toughest days I have ever had crappie fishing. It felt like there wasn't a pattern at all. The fish were spread out all over the place. We had rising water, rain, the wind blowing out of the north and northeast, and currents everywhere. Every bank that we fished by I heard water flowing. Most of the the fish we did catch were small and the bigger ones were reaction bites. We were spider-rigging jigs tipped with minnows and the good bites were when we were hauling ass. The lines would almost go horizintal to the water and the fish would hit on the rise or the fall. We tried 2 different areas and only kept 16. I have experienced this on the north end of the lake but never on the south end. I believe that the fishing will pick back up when the water starts to go back down. Anytime we have some stability in the water high or low the fish are much easily patterned! I had a client call me Sunday and ask me where to go in all this high water. I told him you are asking the wrong guy. LOL My advice was to fish rip-rap and fish all you can. He called back and gave me a report yesterday and said they caught aroung 80. But only 6 of them were big fish.They Spider-rigged all day! So if you are fishing right now and struggling don't worry about it we have all been humbled here lately. Good fishing! EB