Watts Barr Lake Crappie

[sugarkills22]

I was down there last night catfishing. I only seen one boat where I was fishing. They where catching a bunch of crappies around down trees and bruch

[crappiepappy]

Was down there 5/1 - 5/3 and the females still had eggs ... males were nowhere to be found ... and the fish we caught were suspended about 15-20ft down in 25-30ft of water & moving to the backs of the creeks. All were White Crappie females around 12-14" long. All were caught slow trolling/spider rigging 2" stinger shad bodies under 1/2oz weights at 0.5-0.8mph.

If it wasn't for the forecast of 80% chance of thunderstorms, I'd be back down there this coming weekend !! Water temps were 64-67deg and the lake was less than a foot from pool & slowly rising (ten days ago).

... pappy