the waves at the boat ramp just west of the damn had the boat high centered so we had to back deeper into the water just about said to hell with it . But we got off the trailer and headed out into the first cove west of the the ramp and went back into another protected cove and latched onto some of the old tree tops and fished away caught a few hybrids on black and white plastic then bam nothing so we tried some minows and worms and caught a few more but no crappie then we caught several perch some small some pan sized. the decided to hit the bottom (which was about 17 feet) Then we started catching the **** out of cats the were small but fun to catch almost had a gar in the boat but chewed the line as we lifted it in...Anyway had fun loading the boat with the waves from hell . So in all we had about 16 fish you name it we caught it! all but crappie ......