My dad and I fished EF for about 4.5 hours this morning. Perfect weather and water conditions. No rain, water in good condition despite heavy rains last night.

I continue to be disappointed in the size of crappie there. Haven't fished it since last September and I fish open water with double-minnow rigs this time of year. Last year, I remember I could only manage about 10 keepers out of a hundred+ fish. Places where I used to haul in some nice fish. Today, we must have caught 60 crappie and only 3 were above 9" and just barely. I don't want to get carried away with only one trip this year, but there seems to be a problem with crappie that isn't fixing itself -at least not as quick as I would like

Fishing used to be so much better there. Seems like they are stunted to me. Maybe not enough shad in the lake anymore? I'll probably be going again in a week to meet some family up there and fish. It's a great place for kids to catch a bunch of fish but guess we need to wait if we want to catch a mess. Incidentally, rain was threatening so I'm sure that kept some people away but for a summer morning, there weren't many trailers in the parking lot.

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