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Went out for a few hours this morning. Fishing was good as long as you stayed out of the wind. Put a dozen nice crappie in the live well. Water temp was 41 degrees. Caught all on Black/chartreuse...

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Crappie still biting good. Had 10 over 10 inches. Put them back in the lake for next time, I have plenty in the freezer. Caught them with a cork and jig. Chartreuse seemed to work well. Caught them...

Crappie were biting pretty good today. Kept 10 overs in about 2 hours. Found them in from 2 to 6 feet of water with a jig about 18 inches below a bobber. Used chartreuse and black flakes with pink...

Caught 12 nice ones today. Using a cork with a jig and jig is about 24 inches down, using a chartreuse jig in about 6 to 8 feet of water. Water was about 40 or 41 degrees.

Caught a dozen real nice crappie today. Water was about 42 degrees and all were caught in about 6 foot of water with a jig about 2 feet down. Used chartreuse/chartreuse or black/chartreuse.

Went out today and caught 10 nice keepers, water temperature was about 40 to 42°. Caught on black and chartreuse jig in about 6 to 8 feet of water.

Caught a few crappies today. Ended up with 10 overs and 8 unders. Caught in 3 to 6 feet of water using chartreuse and black jigs. Water was about 51 degrees.

Went out this morning and fish for a few hours, ended up keeping 12 really nice Crappies. Fishing 4 to 6 feet of water swim in a jig back about 18 to 24 inches down using chartreuse jigs. Water temp...

Wife’s friend and her husband wanted some Crappie . I ended up with 20, 10 overs and 10 unders. I had some real nice ones too, fishing shallow, 3 feet of water using monkey milk with a pink head,...

Caught some more nice fish. Water is warming up a couple degrees from where it was a few days ago, it was 60 to 61 degrees today. Caught several fish, kept 10 all together. Fished in about 7 or 8...

Crappie fishing is picking up some for me. Went today and caught quite a few, ended up cleaning 15 of them. Water temperature was 57 to 59 degrees. Fishing in about 7 or 8 feet of water swimming a...

Fished Lake Mattoon again this morning, ended up with 10 overs and 5 unders again. Got them about the same way that I did the other day, fishing from 6 feet deep anywhere down to about 1 foot deep ....

Went out to Lake Mattoon today and caught 10 overs and five unders in an hour and a half. Was fishing from 6 foot down to 1 foot deep using black and chartreuse or blue and silver jigs water...

Where are you fishing shallow or deep? Are the Crappie still spawning? Thank you.

Went out today and ended up keeping 10 overs. Caught them in 3 to 6 feet of water using pink and chartreuse jigs. Water temperature was 58 to 60, caught all in 2 hours, 9 out of the 10 were full of...

Fished Lake Mattoon today, water temperature was 60 and 61, fished in water from 2 to 6 foot deep, caught 13 nice keepers, using chartreuse and pink jigs.

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Caught 6 overs and 6 unders. Water temp was about 47 degrees. Fishing in about 8 or 10 feet of water with jig about 3 feet deep.

Central Illinois, 42.5 degrees water, caught them shallow

I caught a few last week. I think if your out on the right day they are biting.

Haven’t fished Newton lake in years. I always knew it was good for bass , and used to be good for crappies years ago but didn’t know if they still had very many numbers left ?

Fished for about 3 hours and ended up with 10 keepers. Crappie seemed more scattered than they had been, just caught one here and one there. Fishing central Illinois, weather was good and water...

No pictures this time but I went out in the wind today, found a couple spots out of the wind and did pretty good. Caught 22 keeper Crappie, released them for another day. I was the only boat trailer...

Crappie bite has been good for me lately. Catching crappie in 5 to 10 feet of water swimming jig back about4 foot down. Colors don’t matter much but I used Bill/Blue mostly. Water was in mid 40’s....

Went out today and ended up keeping 10 Crappie, from 9 1/2 inches to 11 1/2 inches long. Caught in 4 to 10 foot of water running the jig about 1/2 way down. Black/Chartreuse or White/Chartreuse jigs....

Caught a nice bucket of Crappie today on lake Mattoon. Use white/chartreuse or black/blue jigs. Water was 56 degrees. Caught in anywhere from 3 to 10 feet of water with jig about 2 or 3 feet deep....

Water temperature was right around 60 degrees. Used several different colors of jigs, all worked well.

Fished Lake Mattoon today, caught lots of Crappie , fishing shallow water , lots of small ones, only had 10 keepers but had fun catching fish.

Lake Mattoon, been doing well there lately.