what happened to the crappies

[dairyman]

I've been out the last two nites and came up with a big fat zero

Not even marking them on the flasher. The ice looks like swiss cheese out there now. Think I'll back off for a few days and hopefully the weather will stabilize and things will improve--dang frustrating

[Jim Panfish Uran]

Wow really?? They have been going pretty good up this way on quite a few different lakes.

[Code-Man]

How deep were you? I know this time of the year I like to go deep 40 fow

[dairyman]

looks like I have to change lakes---where I have been fishing its only about 20 feet deep

[Jim Panfish Uran]

It really depends on the lake most of the lakes I fish barely reach 30. The one I caught some last night on got to 45 and we were catching them in 12 FOW. Other lakes the bite has been in 22, another has been in 16-18. A little shallower than midwinter.

[Pickelfarmer]

went out tonight and hammered them in 20 fow.They did come in at all differnt depths so you have to watch for them.

[pan man]

been fishing them in 50' and the schools are there some days good others are slow just go deep

[Jim Panfish Uran]

I say go shallow and panman says go deep, so it's obviously a lake to lake deal.

[pan man]

true depends on the lake thats why the paper mouth can frustate the best of them

[Jim Panfish Uran]

they frustrated me last night, i don't know if it was the weather or what but I got the big "skunk" for crapps, caught a few perch and a couple snake northerns on waxies.

[KEN W]

Cold front yesterday shut them down.....out this morning and it was slow.Should pick up the next couple days before the next storm system gets here.

[fisherdog19]

Been clobbering them during the day in 14-18 fow on the edge of standing weeds. It seems that this time of year the night bite tends to slow down some as most of the critters coming out of the mud are slowing down some. The day bites will get better and better. It really depends on the lake, but I would say the bite will get shollower as the season progresses. It won't be long before there aren't many fish left over deep water anymore.