Early morning fishing?

So, I get my minnows the day before, get on the lake by 630 am, ready to rip into the crappie and ZILCH.
So my question is, whats the typical feeding cycle for crappie during a summer day.
They were not in the brush early, that's for sure.
Tips?

Have to look for them Bret. They move around when the water gets this warm and some are going deep. I checked some brush piles the other day and didn't find fish on any of them. I talked with some guys that were fishing a bridge with limited success on the shady sides of the columns.

Brettw, How deep are you looking for them? My Friends are doing fairly well on them in the mornings. Try anywhere from 25-30 ft. Also it depends on if crappie are in the area you are fishing. Maybe it's time to move and give it break for awhile.

What lake were you fishing?

On the Hill we are finding them in the brush piles at daylight. The later it gets the slower the bite. I think one reason for that is the super clear water. They can see everything better once the sun gets up. Our best piles are in 15 to 18 fow anything deeper we don't catch as many but we are trolling over these piles so we may not be getting down to the deeper fish. Our piles have slowed the last few days but we have had a great post spawn season.

Well, I'll go against the grain and say I've been catching fish about 12' deep in 14'-17' of water. Before sunup I might throw my jigs out about half a throw which puts them about 9'-10' deep but when the sun pops up the fish will move closer to the bottom. It gets daylight around 5:45AM now so I try being at the ramp at that time and get to my fishing spot shortly there after. I fish about 4 hours and by then it is usually as hot as I feel comfortable fishing i9n so I'm ready to call it a day. I leave fish biting when I decide to quit due to the heat around 10 or 10:30AM.

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Fishing Wylie,
Brush anywhere from 18-30 ft. Coming up from the bottom about 10 ft.
Thing is I wore them our last week in the high sun and heat. So naturally, I head back to the spot early, not one bite, on any of my CK glory holes.

Could just be an off day also

Look deeper GrassHopper ! And most of your days you are off anyway !:Rofl

using wrong bait == get Ron or John to get u some them no holds bard mercy catch um or die tryin uncle remus line slide BLUE MINNERS == do the trick every time :Rofl