Originally Posted by
crappieseeker
I agree with a lot of the info here but there are so many verying factors it is hard to say. Me and a guy from Kentucky were casting a spot one morning that was only about 10 feet wide by 10 feet long and we caught over 500 that morning, but we only ended up with 31 keepers out of all that many fish. For the most part like the others have said, most of the time those dinks will slam it and the bigger ones will just litely grab it. We always had a little inside joke where we called them dishrags cause it felt like you just hung into a dishrag that you were just dragging through the water. However on some instances the big ones would nail it too. I have heard that crappie try and school with the same hatch year class but they sometimes get split up from each other depending on being caught and returned and other factors. I have fished some mornings and caught over 100 crappie and not have a single fish that is big enough to measure.