Quote Originally Posted by 91tiger View Post
I've been having a hard time telling crappie schools and gizzard shad schools apart on mine. I can easily tell what is stripers and perch are pretty distinctive if they are balled up on the botom or even in singles. I can also easily recognize schools of threadfins. But I keep seeing these suspended groups of fish that appear to be crappie size and I will fish them and never get bit. Probably my fishing skills but I'm starting to think that some of them are groups of gizzards. I have been around some large gizzard schools and seen them flicking on the surface and they pretty much look like what I'm seeing. If the crappie are hanging on brush it's very obvious what they are but when they are spread out in open water, I become much less sure.
They may very well be gizzard shad.
I did jig over a stack and got 1 10" crappie so that was some confirmation

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