I’m still kicking.

[Just_Bass]

I went back again last night, saw a lot of Shad boiling on surface against shoreline. First 20 minutes I tried right on top of boiling no luck, tried all depth and speed no luck. My jig got hung up three times on shoreline. I changed angle of casting instead of parallel to shoreline, I cast as closed to shoreline as possible and retrieved super slowly down the slope “bam” first hit. Turn out they hung out 3-4 feet out and 5-6 feet deep. I was getting back to back to back hit after the first bite doing the same, cast to shore let the jig fall and started counting to 6-7 while reeling as slow as possible to not let jig hit bottom. All in all it was fun caught first 10 or so in about 20-30mins the bite slow down but still manage another 10 the last hour of sunlight. BTW don’t get any bite on bottom which I usually do while searching for crappie.

[CrappiePappy]

If those Shad were Right Against the shoreline and thrashing the water around the rocks ... they're spawning. Seen that behavior here a couple of weeks ago.

Couple of those fish in the pics seem to have some fin damage, but doesn't look like spawning damage. You got predators attacking your Crappie ??

[Just_Bass]

Yes mostly bird, I guess. I believe spawning is over at my lake. Temp get up high, I guess water temp reach high 60 or even 70. A lot of fish I caught last couple week got a lot of damage to body too. We have pelican migrated to our lake. This one caught April 23.

[Fishfishwish]

Very nice. I could never cast light lures like that with any of my baitcasters. It clearly works for you and the fish don't care.