Went solo Saturday my fishin buddies had family reunions to go to. Fished from 7:00 to 11:00 and caught 25 crappie and kept 15. I didn't catch anything real big but all the keepers were nice fish. The bite was odd today, none of them really thumped the baits, most of them just swam sideways or swam upwards. I caught the majority fishing 8 to 12 feet deep in 15 to 18 feet of water. All the fish I saw on the graph still seemed to be suspended. I fished with 3 down rods and casted with another. I expected to catch more fish casting but only caught 2 crappie and one drum. Even the ones I caught casting didn't thump the jigs, I just felt something heavy and set the hook. I guess they didn't want a moving bait today. The best bait today was a Bobby Garland slab slayer in black and chartreuse. My down rods had pink and orange 1/8oz jig heads with the BG black and chartreuse slab slayers tipped with minnows and niblets. Had several other boats close by but only saw one other boat catching fish. No real consistency in how deep all the boats were fishing. I was fishing deeper water than all the other boats. The guy in the other boat closest to me was nice enough to offer me the dozen crappie he'd caught, so I ended up taking home 27 nice crappie.