Me and dad took the lil alluminum jon boat out to the lake that we caught a bunch of little crappies in on saturday. there are about 7-10 old christmas trees set up in a row sitting in (estimated) 10' of water. We just did verticle casting around an older tree, lack of little branches, and had pretty good luck. We both caught a nice amount of crappies from 8-13". I caught the biggest one of the day, a 13"er. I saw a little school of minnows amungst the branches of the tree and droped my orange/chart. jig right under them...WHAM!! my 13"er slammed my jig. thought it was a big bass for a while. my biggest of the year, only fished for crappies in the boat twice and have had great success. I owe a lot of it to you guys for tips and advice. The rest i owe it to my jigs and line :p thanks guys.