Hey Outlaw have you noticed that the whites and blacks spawn at different times and conditions? few years back was at one big lake and got into a few close in but everyone was saying the spawn was over and time to go back out on trees. But happened to go to another lake where I have a place and when we got there NO one was out fishing and few days before all kinds of boats were out and banks had bunch of guys on the rocks. So we wen along assuming it was over but my buddy had a wayward cast with a plug and it went up against rocks and Boom crappie in full colors hit it. so immediately I brought my long pole over and dipped and Boom it was on! We were ketchn like mad all along this long causeway and got our limits in short order. Went back next morning with our wives and killed them again and it was a wild affair with four of us in the boat and they were all swing their fish over to me to judge keeper or not and put them in right bucket. again conventional thoughts were wrong and we just lucked into the later Black crappie spawn. when asking my friends no one had ever heard of that, thinking they both spawned at same time.