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This my experience exactly. I find nice gills suspended over deeper water almost year round, and I have them all to myself.In the large bay I visit every spring, anglers using slipbobbers fish in boats along the shorelines.... But those shoreline-oriented anglers are missing out. Every year I find prespawn crappies and 'gills so far out and away from shore that you need to mark spots with GPS.