When do crappie scatter vs school?

[xpauliber]

I’ve been out several times on my nearby lake and water temps are 50-53. I haven’t been able to find any schools of fish yet. Do crappies scatter and school based on the water temps?

[catchNgrease]

Yes
My fish scatter when they are on the feed up before the spawn. On my home lakes those temperatures (50-53) are tricky because that's right at the cutoff of a particular baitfish dying and another one starting to thrive. That's when the multi polers come out. On those temperatures they are usually sitting about 8ft down on channel slopes wanting to come up to start the feed.

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[xpauliber]

Yes
My fish scatter when they are on the feed up before the spawn. On my home lakes those temperatures (50-53) are tricky because that's right at the cutoff of a particular baitfish dying and another one starting to thrive. That's when the multi polers come out. On those temperatures they are usually sitting about 8ft down on channel slopes wanting to come up to start the feed.

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Excellent, thank you! Maybe I’ve been looking too shallow lately.

[Ketchn]

At 50 to 53 I would be on a late winter pattern here , deep under large bait schools , quite possibly packed and stacked dead on the bottom

[Jamesdean]

Our temps not quite there yet and the crappie are scattered with them hanging out between drop offs and just off rockky embankments suspended about 8-10ft down over 20'-30' water...

[BJH]

I’ve been out several times on my nearby lake and water temps are 50-53. I haven’t been able to find any schools of fish yet. Do crappies scatter and school based on the water temps?

Listen for the bell to ring, that's when they scatter!

[BJH]

I’ve been out several times on my nearby lake and water temps are 50-53. I haven’t been able to find any schools of fish yet. Do crappies scatter and school based on the water temps?

Listen for the bell to ring, that's when they scatter!

[NIMROD]

Depends on the lake in my state . Some lakes I never see schools of White Crappie . Some lakes big Black Crappie roam in schools .

[washuey]

When crappie do this or that depends on more than one factor, when it is April in Missouri, it is December/January in FL. Once the spawn is over, they tend to scatter.