Stink - Ya know the best part about your post is that you are FINALLY back to fishing. I know what it feels like to be finally FREE. It is normal for the female crappie to be forming eggs now.
The Hugo trip should be great fun assuming the weather is good. Chatt Martin is coming along with Frank Burwell from Kansas and, I hope, Odie is going to join us as well. We will eat well, sleep well and the laughs will flow.