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Hello All, been fishing for crappies in Lake Kissimmee when we visit the in laws typically around late February when they are up shallow spawning. This year will be there over the Holidays. When do the fish move shallow to spawn? Im thinking late December will be to early so I'll need to find the pre spawn locations. Thanks.....
Welcome from Debary, and I hope you find some. I mostly troll but single pole some too. The St Johns is in my backyard practically so I spend most of my time in moving water or river system lakes. Sorry I’m not much help.
IMHO, here in Florida the answer is "it depends". What it depends on is the weather. When it gets warm early, I've seen fish full of eggs seemingly ready to spawn in late December. When stuff like that happens I've seen it screw up the regular spawn where you could not find them in the pads that particular Spring time. But I'm no expert. The water here in Florida is relatively shallow so I think weather has everything to do with the spawn. I also don't feel they act the same everywhere. Clear water crappie vs cloudy water, vs running river water. It's all different, and I'm sure they spawn at different times depending on all that. My suggestion would be to go catch some fish when you get here and clean them and see what stage they are in. Good luck and let us know what you find.
Been a while since fishing Kissimmee, but have always did ok in the open waters of "North Cove" & there's plenty of grass edges near that area if they were to be shallow in December...good luck
Thanks guys, much appreciated. I'll let you know how things turn out. Just for info purposes, the crappies here don't move shallow until late April or first part of May. We usually get a couple of weeks of peaceful fishing in before the jet skis and pleasure boaters come out around Labor Day.