Members lmt-outfitters Posted May 12, 2021 Members Share Posted May 12, 2021 fished today had 9 keepers 9 shorts. Bottom bouncing in 15 to 22 ft. Had to move around. Find fish with sonar go over a couple times. Catch 2 or 3. Move to next spot. nomolites, olfishead, TrevorByrd and 13 others 14 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olfishead Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 Only fished an hour and a half caught 6 walleye, two keepers, 4 crappie, 2 keepers, around 20 ft and on the bottom on jigs. dan hufferd, liphunter, Diamond City Fisher and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harps Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Sounds like the crappie spawn is over then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 7 hours ago, Harps said: Sounds like the crappie spawn is over then? It's over, but I think it hardly happened this year. Falling water temps in mid to late April really hurt the spawn, I believe. Two weeks ago we were catching some scattered, undersize male crappie in 9-10 feet of clear water in some of the coves - I think they were guarding a few nests back then, but they were not concentrated. Occasional keeper females at that time were widely scattered and on humps and ridges in deeper water. This past Thursday, the 13th, the two of us got limits of barely-legal walleyes and caught many more short walleyes. We caught 4 legal crappie, 11" to 13", in 18'-20' of very clear water plus about 10 short crappie. When we cleaned the four crappie we found they were one male and three females that were re-absorbing their eggs. There is no post-spawn crappie pattern going on that we can find. straw hat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bologna Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 Fish have me all confused this year. Went to some spots that always produce on Friday, nothing.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithvillesteve Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 Same for me friday bologna. Fished from 2 to 6 targeting eyes. Tried bottom bouncers, tried a jig, tried drifting a jig. Nothing. Talked to a couple of guys who were rigged like they knew what they were doing and they had 2. Bottom bouncers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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