This past week our largest crappies came in the same waters, just as shallow, but late in the day at and after dusk. Our crappies are heavily pressured during the daytime and we have generally only seen the true slabs late in the day or just after dark. It has taken very soft jigging and dead slow retrieves both at or along the bottom for us to score. They are still there but for us they are not coming up or chasing much. Crossing and head-on winds have played havoc with our line control; so we have also been moving to locations where that is less of a problem. We have to have line control to see most of what is a very soft bite, often too soft to feel.
We have had to do a lot of changing out of tails to pick up scattered fish, but between the two of us we are still releasing at or close to limits of mixed sized fish, in our shorter afternoon and evening jaunts. (MN limit is 10)