After suffering through years of drought, our lakes took in huge amounts of water this year from the heavy winter rains. That's a great thing in the long run but the added nutrients into the lakes has made for some real odd fishing.

For this question I'll use Roosevelt for discussion.

Roosevelt went from 7000 acres to 20000 and its still rising. The lake is a super crappie lake that has no limits and average fish size of 2 pounds. It is not unusual to catch 100 fish a day over 3 pounds when the fishing is full on. This year started out like all others with an armada of boats trolling in 18 to 24 feet of water over a school of fish 3 miles across. Then the rains! That very same spot is now 115 feet deep and thousands of acres of bushes and trees are now under water for the fist time. We all know the typical spawn pattern for crappie starts once the water temps hit 60 to 65 and often occurs close to the full moon. The problem is, that was a long time ago around here. The water temps are now above 72 and still no crappie spawn. A few males are being caught close to shore right now but the females seem to be long gone. The males are not beat up as typical post spawn. The bass spawned mostly last month. We are going to try it agin this full moon but are not expecting much.

Has anyone else seen this behavior before, and what's your bet's on when/if the spawn happens.

Thanks...