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Crappie Spawn is over!

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#1 ·
Took the day off yesterday in hopes of not missing the last of the spawn. Headed to Mogadore. Fished from 7am til 2pm. Found a decent amount of small crappies, less than 9", in shallow waters. Only caught 6 that were 9" and above. I think the big ones have already spawned and left for the deep water!

Found a few places where the gills/sunfish have moved in to spawn. Didn't see any big ones on the beds, so I didn't stop to fish. Tried drift fishing around the sunken island and only caught one catfish. I don't know where the big fish went. We sure didn't catch them! Beautiful day to be on the lake though! Glad I took the day off!
 
#3 ·
I went out yesterday as well and found the same with the crappies in term of size and numbers. Got three over 9". Mine all came from deeper water though, 9'-13'. Been reading a lot of other reports of fish relating to wood but didn't try that. It sure was a nice day!

Took the day off yesterday in hopes of not missing the last of the spawn. Headed to Mogadore. Fished from 7am til 2pm. Found a decent amount of small crappies, less than 9", in shallow waters. Only caught 6 that were 9" and above. I think the big ones have already spawned and left for the deep water!

Found a few places where the gills/sunfish have moved in to spawn. Didn't see any big ones on the beds, so I didn't stop to fish. Tried drift fishing around the sunken island and only caught one catfish. I don't know where the big fish went. We sure didn't catch them! Beautiful day to be on the lake though! Glad I took the day off!
 
#4 ·
At the larger lakes, they are probably still spawning for another week. We caught some crappie around wood and some at inside weed edges.

Saw plenty of gills spawning shallow though. To me, that means the crappie are heading heading deep real fast!
 
#12 ·
I fish mostly "smaller"(closer to home) lakes for crappie(Wft, Mog, my pond!) and I agree 100% with you! Those waters warmed up fast-and early! Favorite spots where I've caught them from during "normal" years showed huge, empty, fanned out bedding areas(where I've found nicer spawners over perhaps the past 40 yrs),in the past couple weeks, had only a couple "junior" fish that weren't there for any particular reason! Adjacent to these were "many" spawning sunfish, which is no fluke-they always are next in line! On the smaller lakes, the breeding activity of the mature fish is done! Just have to get started after them earlier in future years I guess(or fish the bigger lakes...)
 
#14 ·
not as expierenced as others that have commented... BUT-my thoughts would be that if you are catching small fish shallow hopefully the bigger fish are yet to come in behind them. i know in my neck of the woods the season should be a little farther along than yours and ours still have eggs down here with a lot of smaller males up shallow right now. keep after em! there is more spawning action to come!
 
#16 ·
I just left mosquito for second day in row I’ve caught multiple larger crappie with eggs still. All trolling with husky jerks and flicker shad. I was actually amazed how many I caught with theses. I’ve Been crappie fishing west branch hard and catching a lot of small fish for last month and wanted to go after Walleye at mosquito and now only seem to be catching big crappie lol funny how that works.
 
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