Last evening we started at the last known location, but with the shelter from the wind there and the strong sunlight, the crappies had moved farther up their pre-spawn routes. By the time we worked up to that the bank was lined with extended families fishing for meat and probably legally too, considering the number of children and the limits each is legally able to take. I don't especially like that degree of harvest, but I am also reasonably certain that all those fish get eaten and help with the family food budgets. They were thick enough that we would have had to shoulder in to get fishing space, which we don't like when it happens to us; so we passed, looking into whatever buckets that were along the way. Lots of crappies in those buckets!
Anyway we only managed a handful of medium small crappies, ourselves. We could have had all the dink sunnies we wanted, however.
Along the way there was another bonus fish. This mama, already heavily in the family way, took a 2" Bobby Garland Baby shad in about 3' of water. Same rod, reel and line as the pike I posted previously. If a 30" walleye runs about 10 pounds, this lady beat that weight by somewhat!
I love my GAMMA line, there were several places where I felt it come free from obstructions in this fight. Really abrasion resistant! The Team Catfish lip gripper is pretty nice, too. We have taken more bonus fish in this year's spring crappie fishing than we can ever remember and there have been some real nice ones, too, at least 5 species over line test already. You never know just what is going to take those little plastics next!