Our water temps here are over 60 degrees now, but the high moving water is not good for us as they are not use to it. The last 3 springs have been ruined to some extent with flooding! Our normal weather will give us great crappie fishing for several months, but this stinks. They turned it on good a few weeks back, but once this water hit and the gates opened, it's turned very tuff fishing for crappie. Strange thing is it doesn't seem to be messing with the bass as much.

My first experience with this water change hurting our crappie fishing was about 7 years ago when the lake got a little over what they wanted earlier than "they" wanted. So just when the crappie hit the banks I learned of them being in because I went down to test a couple new jigs and to my true surprise off my bank I got 3 in just a few minutes and the smaller was 14"! So I got all excited and about that same time the SRA dropped the lake 2 feet in 2 weeks, the crappie moved out to 9 1/2 feet of water. Normally they hang at 6 foot to 7 feet of water, but that year once at 9 1/2 feet they staid there the entire spring. They never did turn on like they can, but was still good enough, but the last 3 years has a just been tuff and I didn't even go one time last year!

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