I hit the lake at about 5 this morning and made my first cast at about 505. Fish on. For about the next 3 hours things were just really super as far as catching goes. At around 9 my little hot spot began to shut down as the sun got higher on the water there so I moved across the channel to more shaded water. On the shady side of heaven we opted to crawl along the shore with the electric and cast to pockets of shaded water and did well again with that tactic. We came across a point on a small inlet/bay and had a couple bumps but nothing hard. My buddy decided to toss his old standby color out there to see if a color change from the purple/chartreuse tail was in order. His standby was a simple glow. And the switch was met with hostility on the crappie's part. Man the hits were fierce. Twice he broke 4 pound line on hits. His change had me scrambling for a glow bait and soon I was at the fishing forefront again. Now the weird part came when I was clearing a wind-knot and my bait had drifted into wide open bright sunlit water and got hammered. Still knotted, I broke off. My buddy dropped a line in the same place and was hit immediately.
On the locator I saw that we had a long deep shelf under us and that was where the crappies were stacked and all of them were post-spawn fish, mostly hens. Large fish too. On the deep side the water was around 12 feet while the top of the shelf had about 8. We found these fish with floats set at 2 feet....the fish were charging up to hit. We stayed on the ridge until I thought my buddy's ear tops were going to bleed from sunburn and the fishing never did let up. Now I have to go back next week to see if this anomaly in my thinking will hold up. High skies, flat water, clearing water and wide open away from any other shade or structure....I never would have expected to find crappies like that.
