Santee is a shallow, open water lake. It has mostly black, tannic waters. These two conditions just warm faster then the upland reservoirs and allow the fish to spawn sooner, and more often. White crappie typically spawn one month behind the blacks. There is a three month window for both species. Spawning blacks can be caught from mid February through mid May. Spawning whites from mid March through mid June. Of coarse weather patterns and conditions can vary these time frames a couple weeks each way. I saw that putt on TV, and yes, I felt his pain.

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Speaking of fish eggs, all the Shellcrackers we caught at Santee had spawned out.
Friend caught some last week on Murray and they were full of eggs.
Guess it varies by several weeks from lake to lake. I could understand if the lakes were in different states, but these are within 60 miles.
Tim, do Whites typicalky spawn later than blacks?
PS. Did you see that the short putt Duffner missed on the last hole cost him $700,000?