This week

[nomolites]

ConorSixta and I bass fished the north side of Soap Creek Saturday and the crappie were scattered all over the first large shallow flat toward the back on that side...lots of guys fishing below it but it would have been easy pickin there with the float and jig rig.  I caught a couple good ones on the jerk bait before moving on.  ConorSixta had the only decent bass of the day below that on that dang a rig.

Mike

[conorsixtakc]

1 hour ago, nomolites said:

ConorSixta and I bass fished the north side of Soap Creek Saturday and the crappie were scattered all over the first large shallow flat toward the back on that side...lots of guys fishing below it but it would have been easy pickin there with the float and jig rig.  I caught a couple good ones on the jerk bait before moving on.  ConorSixta had the only decent bass of the day below that on that dang a rig.

Mike

Good times as usual with you Mike. I've been putting off throwing the xmas tree for too long. You put us in the right place and we were throwing the right stuff, I'm sure we would've pulled out a few more good ones if we didn't have to wait in line to fish it. 

[Seth]

2 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

I suppose.   But it ain't exactly hard to come up with a mess, even if you don't have a boat to install side imaging sonar on. 

That's true when you only fish for them when they move shallow. Late fall and winter is feast or famine. You may scan 100 docks before you find the motherload. Good luck catching them on those days without side imaging. If it was so easy, there would be A LOT less guys asking what the crappie are doing. Besides, you live on the lake and probably have enough crappie holes at this point that a graph doesn't do much anyways. You hit enough of them and you're bound to find some fish. I've always said that if you fish an area enough, you don't need fancy graphs to find fish. Some of the best anglers I know don't have a clue how to run a graph. Time on the water is always the best option if you have the time.

Spring time is great when you actually hit the weather right. Those big cold fronts that screw up the spawn bite like to show up on a Friday/Saturday and ruin it for the weekend angler though. Those cold fronts don't bother those winter fish much if any.