Hi,
My Brother-in-law and I were just there from Sunday evening until Wednesday morning. We went out Monday and took everything I read and heard about to fish with and was told when we got there the Crappie were hitting on Road-Runners. (Something we didn't have!) So, bought some Road-Runners. Monday we were on the water from 7:30 AM until 2:30 PM. The wind and the white caps were there too. I caught 5 non-slab Crappie around some "Fish Habitat", my Brother-in-law caught 2. One of his was a slab. I didn't catch any Crappie on any of my jigs. I caught them on minnows. My B-I-L caught his on a red and chart jig. On Tuesday, we were out on the lake again at 7:30 AM and we stopped again by another "Fish Habitat". There we were fighting the wind again and casting up torward the bank. For the first hour or so, we started doing fine. I caught 17 with a few slabs in there with 12" being the biggest. Again I was using minnows and didn't catch anything on my jigs. My B-I-L caught 7 with several being slabs and his biggest was 13" and he was using and all chart jig with a pink head and tipping with a Crappie nibble. Then a long came the white caps and it seemed as if everything just stopped. We moved around trying to find fish and get out of the wind. We seen anglers on the bank, near the bank, out in the middle ( I'm assuming maybe checking the flats and channels). What I didn't see were anglers with bent poles! Word was out that no-one seemed to be catching anything. Then of course woke up to a rainy morning Wednesday and we decided to go home. Very disappointing. This is the second time it's happened. Come to think of it, this is only the second time my B-I-L and I have been fishing for Crappie at Lake Wappapello! Seemed like people were nailing them, then we get there the fish shut-up and went into hiding. So, it wasn't a very exciting fishing trip this year. Don't know if I'll go back next year.
EXAGGERATOR....nothing to exaggerate on this fishing trip