Thanks.
I got the shovelhead today and some small crappies. I'm just glad my friend could grab it.
I got those crappie yesterday with another friend.
Lakes down this way are finally starting to stabilize & improve some. Water color is better on lakes north and east of here but the lake where I got the shovelhead still only has maybe 6" of visibility.
We have a lot more white crappie down here, seems like you guys have lots of blacks. Actually I guess most of our lakes have a mix but my favorite crappie lake down here is almost all white crappie, in 40+ years of fishing there I've only seen 1 black and that was last year. The lake closest to me has a ton of short fish and we thought/hoped that the 9" size limit would improve the quality but so far we can't see it.