What would you do?

I was reading another thread awhile ago and got me to thinking. Toward the end of the last years spawn I was fishing along catching mainly male crappie. There were two fellows that I was watching that was doing pretty good to. I knew who they were. As we passed each other they were leaving. Said they weren't doing all that well. Well I kept fishing. I'm glad to catch pretty much any crappie. It took me awhile to get my limit and culled some to. I left and headed back to the landing. I had my boat about loaded when the two fellows come up to the ramp. What they did is went somewhere else and found better fish biting I suppose. There fish seemed to be better than mine anyway. My question is if you were in my situation would you have continued to catch the males that was biting fair or moved to another area in search of bigger fish or a better bite? If so, what would you be looking for? Deeper water or just a different place to get better bigger fish. Typing on a phone is tough!

depends in what your looking for a good mess of fish for a meal or a big sack of fish on tourney day, the smaller ones eat better anyway, but if your only catching males this usually means the females have already spawned and have moved back into deeper water or they are staging in the deep water a getting ready to move into the shallows, either way you wont find the males and females together for very long periods during the spawn

I've always thought it is a bad idea to leave biting fish to look for fish. The exception, of course, is if you are culling to increase your weight total.

Only leave if you are fishing a tourney.:twocents

Another way to look at it, you were catching good eating fish plus you weren't taking away good female spawning fish.

I try to not catch males on the nest. I'd rather catch the larger females. If you're catching them shallow, back out a little and you'll find better fish.

If they were legal length and jumping in the boat, I'd get my limit and go to the house. If I get in to short fish that are'nt a quarter inch over legal I will move in an instant to keep from wasting minnows.

I rarely fish the banks even in the spawn. Bigger females usually hanging on first cover or drop. Even the big males will stay out deeper on some lakes.