Past 3 weekends crappie fishing

[Lance34]

Past three weekend trips have been a grind.  Fished few weekends ago from sun up to sun down.  Took all day to get there but boy were they some good ones.  

Fish still seem to be holding out in 13 to 15 fow of water.  I’m not catching many shallow like in previous years...  Also catching a ton of little ones this year than I ever have it seems.  

Last week it rained so took off to cleaner water and didn’t do very good at all.  Fished in the snow and caught one crappie.  Should of just took off.

Got out Saturday about 10 and fished till dark.  The water was brown.  Look perfect to me.   Mark fish from 17 to 12 fow. Most were in the 15 foot hanging around the bottom to about 12 feet deep when I started.  I fished about 10 to 13 foot deep and was getting dinked.  I probably caught well over 30 little ones.  I started noticing as the day progressed and the sun got over head more, the bigger fish were moving up higher in the column by themselves.  They are up there for only one reason.  To eat...  So I raised my lines up high in the column like 3 to 7 feet down over 15 fow.  That’s all it took to get them.  Experienced that a lot in previous years when the lake would get muddy or brown.  They would come up crazy high.  Sometimes your bait just has to be a foot under the surface.  Knew to look for that but it’s a time of day deal and have some sun light.   

Hopefully the bite will get better and not be so much of a grind with some stable weather.  God bless and good fishing Lance