I thought I’d give an update to this post. I went to the lake again yesterday. Water temp started at 73 and was 77 after lunch. Every brush pile, submerged piece of timber and every stick on the bottom is stacked with crappie that are 6” to 9” long. Some of the larger brush piles literally have hundreds of small crappie. On Livescope they look like a burning bush underwater. I caught lots of fish, but only 10 or 12 of them were keeper size. I threw them all back, so I’m not sure if any still had eggs. None of them had huge guts. It didn’t matter if the brush pile was on a main lake point in 27’ of water or in the back of a creek arm in 8’ of water, every piece of wood that I could find was loaded with small crappie. I didn’t have Livescope in May last year, so I’m not sure if this is part of the normal cycle. LS is a heck of a learning tool and fun to play with.

I think I’ll change lakes and try LOP tomorrow. Feeling the need to put a serious arc in my ACC!

sounds like Fork...

Two of us pulled 34 keepers off of one pile in an hour and a half on Sunday. Water temp 73 where I’m fishing. No livescope used.

15 to 35 feet. Timber. 5 to 8 reels off bottom. Minnows outfished jigs today. Ray Roberts post spawn pattern. Afternoon bite. I moved a lot and it took me 3 hours to find the big ones. Once I found the big boy pattern, it worked from the bridges to my boat launch. My depth finder was acting up, so I fished only visible structure. Similar structure = big fish. The first 3 hours it was dink city. What I can say is that trees with small branches = dinks. I didn't have a depthfinder today! Who needs all that fancy stuff right? Trees with hefty bases were better for big fish. If the trunk was straight up and down, the fish stacked vertically and I could drop to the bottom and just reel ups slowly to pick the whole group off the structure. The trees that were heavily branched held fish but it was more difficult. I fished a lot of trees, but that limit came from 3 trees in different parts of the lake with similar characteristics. Big, straight up and down, deep water. Trees like this in shallower water resulted in big fish too, but they didn't hold as many. Maybe even only 1 fish.