Greater metro crappies

Dingy water lake, clarity around 4′, greenish color. Weeds starting to die off, water temp 59. Weed line around 20′.

Shore line points in that 22-25′ had all the northerns guy wanted. Humps in the main held the crappies. 23′ was that magic #. Plain Lindy, fatheads, #4 hook, 3/8oz weight, 4-6′ lead. .3-.5mph. Crawler was getting some nice sunnies.

Bounce around spots until ya find em. Not a big feed line guy but they really needed to suck on it for a bit. Weird for crappies. Best spots on the hump was where some sparse weeds grew on the corners. Lots of bonus largies.

Hit Whitebear yesterday, tough bite, marked lots of fish but had trouble getting them to go, very tentative bites..most water high 50’s but did see some mid 50’s up in the shallow stuff..looking forward to turnover.

N-were you fishing for Walleyes?-surprised you were using fatheads but maybe they want a bigger meal this time of year-maybe why you needed to feed it to them a bit.

On the river I catch crappies consistently with a 4″ ringworm. Imagine fatheads for 10-12″ crappies nice easy meal.

When I go out with family in their boats unfortunately I’m always captain. So they may have walleyes on the brain but going to new lakes they pick out I like to fish, for fish. Take what the lake wants to give that day. That day we hit the hammer handles first 2 spots, 3rd spot got the crappies and sunnies, left that to seek eyes again found more hammer handles on spots 4 and 5 and decided crappies and sun’s were the way to go that day. One nice eyeball at end of day once we put some money on the line, works everytime

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Crappies will hit some super big baits in the fall and late summer. I’ve taken black crappies on #15 floating raps while trolling for walleyes along rip-rap in lower pool 4 backwaters.