What the H**L is goin on!
I've been rackin my brain for the past two weeks trying to figure these fish out. I have kept a journal for the past 10 years of fishing trips and tracking the movement of them every spring and fall. This spring has turned out to be a new one for the books. Some days I catch my limit in a few hours and the next day I'm lucky to catch enough for dinner. I try shallow and deep everyday trying to pattern these fish and it ain't workin. Some days they're deep (12-20), some days they're in between (6-10) and some day they're shallow (2-5). And some days, they're no where to be found. I put a Lowrance sidescan on my boat last December and have learned a lot with it but the best thing I have been able to learn is what crappie look like and where they are are hangin. Whether outside the beds, inside the beds or suspended but there has been a lot of days where there are no fish to be found. They should be loading up the beds in 6-10 feet of water right now getting ready to make the move, especially the blacks. I have caught some in 2.5 FOW but not a lot. Just a couple of loners every now and then. I did get reports about two weeks ago that people were hammering them on the banks for a couple of days and then the big cold front hit and they moved. That's to be expected but they usually just pull out some instead of totally evacuating. Something I've noticed this week is a lot of crap floating in the water like it does in the fall turnover. Could there possibly be a spring turnover? I thought I knew a lot about these suckers but they've stumped me again. Any ideas?
