This fall I have been fishing on a creek that runs into an oxbow lake in the MS Delta. I just started fishing the creek about a year ago (around mid to late December). This time of the year the creek is really shallow, only about 2-3ft in most of the creek with a few drop offs in 4-5ft of water. When I first started fishing it this past December, it was loaded with shad and every game fish imaginable was there feeding on them. I was catching both species of crappie, bass, etc… I was a bit surprised because I have never experienced largemouth bass inhale my jig as much as they were in this creek, and they were all fish in the 2-3lb range. I just started fishing the creek again about 2 weeks ago. The water temp has been in the mid to high 60s. I haven’t seen the large schools of shad yet like I was last December and the fish seem scattered as a result. I have still been catching bass and crappie, but most of the crappie I have been catching are black crappie. And on warmer days black crappie have been usually the only species of crappie I catch. The lake is stained to muddy year round so white crappie are the predominant species on the lake, which is why I’m trying to figure out why I have been catching mainly black crappie in the creek. Is it because black crappie prefer shallower water and will stay in this creek year round with or without large schools of shad and the white crappie will not move in until the shad draw them there? Or are there other reasons?