My sons went to the creek yesterday and brought home 50 Sandies caught on minnows. Left them biting.

Its over. No need to check the creeks anymore.

Not even started at PK yet. I've caught a few males up in the creeks crappie fishing but they are not there yet in numbers. By mid April my fish finder will completely fill in those areas and it won't be carp.

April is always better than march.

Weird year fish have been thick in the creeks. I mean head to tail Since the end of January. With several really good timing of rain the last few years numbers are way up there are still fish moving up everywhere. Watched them run up a riffle with their back out of the water right at dark last night by the thousands before the rain even. There should be several more surges of fish. The really good size females have only been showing their face consistently the last two weeks.

I bet the full moon this weekend will help. Not so sure about all the mud from all this rain though?

I'm glad it's ran a little late this year. Starting vacation Monday. Seems like most years it's about done by now.

The spawn should be more "complete" the farther south one goes, still plenty of time for places like PK and many others.

Males head up several weeks before the females.

Here on Lake Athens, lacking any creeks/rivers to run up into for their spawn, they showed up in great numbers over the 3 Day President Holiday weekend about, what, a month ago, way up in the NW cove.

It was epic. I fished over those 3 days, for about a total of 6 or so hours, caught 45. I don't think a single one of them was less than 15". For such lakes, it is often quality over quantity, less interspecific competition as Richard Ott at TPWD mentioned so they grow really big fattening up in deeper waters over the year leading up to the spawn.

Photo of one of the larger ones next to my 13" boot.

Brad

I caught females with eggs today in a DFW feeder creek so I'm thinking no it's definitely not over. With this rain I expect a fresh charge up the creeks to spawn. FYI crappie too.

Creek Sandies last sunday, they are in there

Definitely not over in my neck of the woods... pretty much $ time!