Originally Posted by
wasabi
@Roy - it has been like you said - they first moved up the water column, although it has been even harder to target them that way as they seem less grouped up. The past couple weeks the water warmed up into the mid to upper 40's and has been even harder to find them. Since I couldn't find them deep anymore I thought they were moving to mid-lake level depths, but it's like they all left the lake. I've tried deep water (fishing bottom and suspended), mid-lake, mouths of creeks and even gone into coves wondering if they went shallow. Nope, nope, nope and nope.
These smaller bodies of water really can confound me. They lack any shad for forage, not even sure what the crappie eat here. The steady sunshine this past week has been nice but every overnight it has also been down into the low 20's. I feel like if the temps can get above 50 I might be able to find some again.