I fish mainly for crappie these days. The word that I have from PL is that the small crappie are very active and it's hard to not catch them up above Walls.

I know that several years ago I fished dumplin creek in May and caught about 100 little crappie using a white lighting #18 1.5" long plastic hollow jig body from Bass Pro Shops and a 1/16oz lead head minnow jig that I got at Walmart. That and I put a chartruse crappie nibble on the bait.

I took friend that's 78 years old with me that time and they caught a lot of fish and had a good time. This is the type of fishing that the little ones may enjoy. Lots of action all day l ong. But it's difficult to catch the larger fish with all the small fish being so active.

I would suggest using larger baits for the bigger fish to avoid the small fish. I am talking about baits at least 3" long or maybe you might get by with 2.5" long baits.

Tipping a small 1.5" jig with a 2" long shiner may work too.

As for bass I can't help you there.

I heard that the fish have not spawned yet. That comes from my buddie PL who fishs the lake every weekend unless he has to work.

Regards,

Moose1am