I fish Norfolk lakes, Whitehurst, Smith, and Prince. We seem to have the best luck early in the year looking for shallow, dark bottom coves with old logs and stumps on the north and east ends of the lakes where the wind piles up the warmer water. We use micro jigs and flies under slip bobbers early in the year. I'm going to try and post some pics over on the main board Friday of what we use. It sounds like everybody has a different favorite lake and method and they all seem to work. I've caught crappies on a lot of different rigs over the years, I think the key is location and through probing of likely locations. I've seen people motor and fish an entire lake in the time we spend on a couple hundred feet of shoreline early in the year. My buddy has atheory that early in the year fish are looking for two things warmth and food and once theyfind them they don't move much.