Crappie

[MCrump]

Went with my brother Thursday evening. Weather was beatiful, got started about an hour before dark and fished until about 11. Breeze was strong enough early on to keep the bugs away but as we went into the night it slowed and they started bothering us a lot more. Anchored on the edge of the flat and caught crappie on minnows and jigs both. Caught them 8 feet down all the way to the surface when they were interested in chasing a jig. we were in about 10-12 foot of water. Honestly, the goal was white bass feeding on that flat but did not even catch a single one of those. Only 6 crappie would've kept out of probably over 50 that we caught. The keepers were far away from monsters too, biggest was barely over 9.5 inches. Bonus fish was a decent largemouth for my brother and about a 1 lb flathead that i caught on a jig. We stayed busy so it was fun even though that keeper percentage hurts the morale some. Rain had moved through earlier that day so I'm wondering if that hurt us a little. And a question for you guys.... The minnows I bought from Trading Post at Carson's Corner were literally the smallest minnows I have ever used. Some were probably less than 3/4" in length. They still caught fish but I had never purchased any that small before. Anybody else?

[sandbc]

the minnows at trading post has been running small lately but their count usually make up for it.  they must have got a new batch late on friday because my brother bought some friday morning that were real small but when i bought on saturday they were a bigger size.  the way the little crappie are biting it doesnt seem to matter.  100 little ones maybe 5 keepers.  oh well its fun and promising for next year.