I wish we had been in my boat. He only has one old depth finder and I didn't know anything about the lake. It looks awful fishy, but since I wasn't the captain, I fished like he wanted to. We trolled around and pitched at cypress trees or grass edges. We fished very shallow. He showed me some pictures of crappie he and his family had caught in the previous years, during the spring. No stringers of fish, just individual fish pictures. Every fish he showed me was a white crappie. If there is a decent crappie population in that lake, the way it's laid out, I don't see why pushing or pulling cranks wouldn't tear them up in the summer. We fished quite a few spots ranging from well below the bridge all the way up to where the river flows in. That upper area looked awful "spider riggy" to me.
It was a brutal day. 96 degrees and 4 fish, but it was good to spend the day with an old friend that I hadn't seen in over 15 years.