Well....I am not going to say I know for sure whats going on. But I will tell you that I have caught a lot of bluegill and redear on the bed...on Kentucky Lake on Memorial weekend before.Not every year but quite a few years. I think the best one was around 2005 maybe ? My wife and I caught somewhere around 130 redear and 200 bluegill. We also caught around 30 crappie that were still on a bed. You can catch males even when the female is gone sometimes. I think nearly every fish we caught that weekend was a male.

You just never know

I caught some crappie in Southern Illinois Saturday that still had eggs in them.