I saw some very beautiful things one day involving that situation. It was bright sunny that day with a little chop on the water. Hadn't been able to catch a single adult crappie, but we were in the middle of a huge school of big shad, big as in 5". Try as we might we couldn't fool a big fish. I decided to move the boat around a little and see just how much bait was under us. Moving up wind a few yards, something very crome caught my eye, concentrating harder, I saw it again. looked like salmon slashing at bait in the waves. Still couldn't catch them, but huge crappie were coming and grabbing the bait that strayed from the tight schools of shad.
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