Spawned out?

[FishPharm]

This was the only crappie I found today. Do the eggs look like they are still developing or has she already spawned and those are what's left? Thanks

[dprice]

I’m no crappie fisherman in the slightest

they look developed to me  on the other hand no a spammer to me 

now my question is ?  They are just coming to the nests Arndt they ?

 I mark a lot of them in the middle  portions of coves  just off  beds 

[MOPanfisher]

Not sure on Stockton but elsewhere the spawn is basically done.  There will still be a few coming in to spawn.  That one definitely looks spawned to me.  They won't shoot all their eggs and those are loose and runny.  The tail is ragged too.

[FishPharm]

She was off a bluff in about 20 fow up toward the dam. I'm guessing if the majority have spawned out there then they've probably spawned out on the rest of the lake too

[straw hat]

Those are those are next years eggs for spawning. They will begin to slowly develop around November and then accelerate as weather warms in the spring. If the ovary are examined under a high poser microscope you will even find ova (eggs) that are extremely tiny in some of the membranes. These will become eggs for 2020 (if they aren't caught first, lol).

 

By the way, when growing up many people ate the ripe eggs of spawning fish like crappie, bass, etc. The only issue is that they are high in cholesterol. I haven't heard of people eating the eggs in years though.

[MOPanfisher]

One of the most delicious things I remember as a kid was a skillet of fried crappie with a bunch of egg sacks all crsped up too.  Course I like the crunchy tails too way back when we cooked them whole. Back in the days of the occasional fish bone in your throat was just the price of eating fish.  I have tried a few times to deep fry but never ends well.  Turns out the trick was to cover the egg sacks with a fish fillet.  

[dprice]

 So many bass on beds I don’t see how the crappie  could move up   ?

i thought they spawned after bass ?

[Mhyde]

2 hours ago, dprice said:

 So many bass on beds I don’t see how the crappie  could move up   ?

i thought they spawned after bass ?

From what we have caught and seen I think the crappie spawned a little deeper this year. From a three weekends that we went I caught very little fish up on the bank I know others did in some areas but we never did most of our fish were 5 to 15 foot out. Im no crappie professional by any stretch of the imagination but when you cast it on the bank as much as I did and didn't catch anything and then you pull your jig or minnow (under a bobber) out deeper and would bites, I just figured they made beds and then we had some rain and I just stayed there were the original bed was made and didn't make a new bed up shallower.??

 

[MrGiggles]

I caught males really shallow on 5/6 and 5/7, at that time the females were still holding deeper in the same area, which was south of the 245 bridge. I did catch a couple bass up shallow too.

Unfortunately I was broken down until the 16th, I have not been able to find any fish up on the bank in the same area as before, aside from dozens of carp.

The fish that I have caught this week while trolling were mostly females, and they still had eggs but were not ready to burst like they were before.

I'm no expert either, but I know that things like water clarity, temperature, and weather patterns will all affect the depth that they spawn in, and those factors can vary considerably from one end of the lake to the other.

[MOPanfisher]

Crappie will spawn before bass.