took my boat out for the first time this year since my son has gotten here and took my dad and 2 brothers out for a couple of hours last night and i bought 2 dozen minnows and we did pretty good there are a lot of crappie in bell cow and there are some big one if you can get past the dinks last weekend i seen a guy take one out of bell cow that weighed at least 3/4lb he told me to use minnows or yellow jig about 1 foot off the bottom