My wife and I fished at Glendale Lake, yesterday. Water temperature was 45-47 degrees at the surface.
The ice has been off the lake for a little over a week now. We marked a lot of bait schools and fish in 20-30 foot of water.
We marked fish from the bottom all the way up to about 5 feet below the surface.
We caught 8 nice crappies ranging from 10 to 12 inches for 6 hours of fishing. It was slow for us.

We used slip bobbers with minnows and varied the depth from 25 feet to 10 feet down. We caught most fish that way.

While fishing we noticed some type of insects flying around. We also noticed fish activity on the surface at times.
We then tried using a hair jig with a fixed bobber. We used black and white jigs with crappie nibbles, and we caught one crappie on the black one.
We varied the depth from 1-5 feet below the bobber.

We also tried flatlining with plastics. BG baby shads and twister tails. We varied the countdown for starting the retrieve.
Tried various colors.
We used slab sauce with the plastics. No fish caught that way.

Is there anything else we could/should have tried? We are beginners to crappie fishing so suggestions would be appreciated.