Quote Originally Posted by Merdock View Post
Crappie pappy, We weren't on the main lake. We were Back in the slew next to the campground. They ones we caught were white crappie. The guy with me kept them so i dont know how the eggs looked. That was the first time i had ever fished that area I mainly fish the spring city side
Next time you go to that area, check out the docks in the back of the creek arm that's directly across from Hornsby Recreation Area ..... and those docks in the bay to the left of the mouth of that creek (Rowden Branch ??) before you come to Red Cloud.
Now ... I'm not saying that from experience, mind you !! But Google Earth & a Watts Bar map shows those areas to be potential spawning areas.

Like you, I've spent most of my time at WB over on the Spring City side of the lake ... Piney River & White Creek areas, for the most part (over the last 20yrs, anyway). Prior to that, I basically worked my way down the lake from Caney Creek to the Bayside/Blue Springs area, over the years before that.

... cp