Where are the crappie going?

[JRussell]

Alright, I'm no professional by no means, but I can usually find a few here and there. I've been catching pretty good early in the morning in 6-12' of water. By about say 10:00 it's like the big fish pack up and go somewhere. The water temp is about 62 degrees. I've looked up shallow and can't find them there. Where are they going?

[bamahound]

Sitting on the bottom. Especially on bright sunny days.

[Rojo]

Not only sitting on the bottom but scattered out to boot. Slow retrieving of GoGo minnows, 2in curly tails, tiny swim minnow plastics, even shiners on split shots gets bites. Slow retrieve is the secret as I don't find the fish even want to chase a bait down, more a reaction bite as it goes by near them to begin with.

[BobC]

Alright, I'm no professional by no means, but I can usually find a few here and there. I've been catching pretty good early in the morning in 6-12' of water. By about say 10:00 it's like the big fish pack up and go somewhere. The water temp is about 62 degrees. I've looked up shallow and can't find them there. Where are they going?

Probably over to Ketchn’s place! Will be interested to hear opinions.
Bob

[NIMROD]

Big ones can suspend over open water or so tight to cover next to the bottom hard to see on livescope.

[JRussell]

Big ones can suspend over open water or so tight to cover next to the bottom hard to see on livescope.

Well first thing in the morning I can find them on cover and see them on live scope. Maybe they just scatter out as the day goes on. Can still see small crappie on cover and catch them just no big ones.

[bamahound]

Yep and 5yrs from now Garmin will have Gen 6 transducers with target seperation even from structure and the mud that will make todays ducers look like the old Johnson Eagle Flashers. And you will need a second morgage on the house to get one

[Rojo]

Yep and 5yrs from now Garmin will have Gen 6 transducers with target seperation even from structure and the mud that will make todays ducers look like the old Johnson Eagle Flashers. And you will need a second morgage on the house to get one

So I run 999 Humminbird's still. Fellow member P-Nut gave me one he had as well as a old original Garmin 92sv. The Crappie fall prey to me without using something to watch them eat my jig. That Johnson Eagle Flasher would bring back memories for me today.

[Ketchn]

So I run 999 Humminbird's still. Fellow member P-Nut gave me one he had as well as a old original Garmin 92sv. The Crappie fall prey to me without using something to watch them eat my jig. That Johnson Eagle Flasher would bring back memories for me today.

we often use a 100 dollar piranha graph , it seems to locate them pretty well and we do not get to watch them eat our jigs either ,but to this day the old eagle I used to run kilt more fish that most LS units do today for sure , stacked em up like cord wood with that unit , black and white with fish symbols with the depth right on the fish , small fisheez were bait , medium fish were likely about 10 inches and big fish were in fact big fish .....love a quick glance and then get after it , I can do screen time when I get home , the water is my escape from said devices .....just saying
LS is very cool for sure , but it isn't how I want to play ketch the fisheez most of the time .....

[JRussell]

Yep and 5yrs from now Garmin will have Gen 6 transducers with target seperation even from structure and the mud that will make todays ducers look like the old Johnson Eagle Flashers. And you will need a second morgage on the house to get one

You probably ain't wrong!