An old gent told me when I first moved to Tennessee that when you find small fish you need to make small changes to find the bigger ones. He asked me if I had ever been to a public playground. You never see the Grandparents in the middle of things with the kids, but they are close by sitting on the edge, keeping an eye on things. Food for thought.
Creativity is just intelligence fooling around
until last year if you told me you could catch a crappie trolling at 2.5 to 2.8 I would have said you were nutz. I buddy took me out and said he was trolling for walleye but we will get alot of crappie, to which i laughed. Well he put on some cranks about the size of a flicker shade size 9 and started around the lake at 2.8mph and man oh man was he right. We put 20 in the boat along with a few walleyes, in about 4 hours with the smallest about 11" and a couple of the biggest were 14's, we never had to throw back a single small one. Ever since thats how I have been catching my crappies, bandit 300's about 35 to 75 feet back depending on how deep they are @ 2.5 to 2.8 mph.
My advice go BIG and speed up!!!