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Got after them last night for first time this year didn't catch many but the ones we caught were good size. Caught 4 crappie all of them was over 3 over 13" and one over 14". What I thought was odd was we caught them in 30 fow 25' deep. All were females and still had eggs in them which I thought was odd also. Does that seem odd to any of you.
A lot of lakes around here have reports of the same thing happening. Likely weather related. With the long cold Winter, then the yo-yoing temps, then the lake raising rains coming right when things were set to start ... they seem to have pulled off & went deep in a lot of cases. Whether they'll keep trying, if things warm up & stabilize, or simply reabsorb the eggs & try again next year is anybody's guess.
... cp :kewl
I caught some fish that I though were deep on Guntersville on the 3d and the females still had eggs and looked like they were going to spawn yet.
Some crappie will actually spawn in 20+ feet of water...
We have a lake up here that has an average depth of about 20 ft. Very common to see them spawn on flooded timber 8-10 ft down
Callshy ,your comment was very interesting please elaborate.
where they white crappie
Yes