Black males. (pics)

[yankee doodler]

Spent the weekend on Gun Lake and came back with a bucket full. Caught a ton of small females and tossed them back. The water temps were back down again ranging from 59 to 63 on most of the lake, a little warmer in the cuts and bays.

The big black males, and I mean they are BLACK, were all out hanging along off-shore breaklines in 12-15 FOW. These breaklines were off "humps' or submerged "islands", surrounded by much deeper water.

All the smaller females I caught were in 15-18 FOW near the shorelines.

They weren't much for live minnows, but they seemed partial to panfish assassin mini shads in orange/gold speck, and tomato seed patterns. They hit more consistently on jigs tipped w/ crappie nibbles, of course.

[talltimber]

Those are some pretty fish. Good going.

[Baxter1]

They are nice,love the colors on the males during the spawn.

[Ken Jones]

Yep, Nice going, I like my niblets also on tube jigs.

[Crappie Jalopy]

Nice catch! Those are some dark males. Mostly catch white crappie here in TN so don't see too many that dark.

[ready2fish]

YD

so how did they taste

[ad1974]

Nice catch.

[fishin'aholic2]

Those are very pretty fish. Nice!

[foul hook]

Nice mess of fish. Glad to see someone catching.

[sac-a-lait]

you would do the lake more justice if you threw back the males and kept the females...IMO.