Decided to check out an old crappie rumor. Couldn't prove or disprove it for sure, a I located a couple 13 inch fish.
I fished from 2-8:30 and yes that's a lousy time to fish if you wish to avoid heavy boat traffic. While the water is very warm, 79-82, there stiff southernly breeze and boat waves produced a moderate boat bite. Averaged 4-5 fish an hour overall, but once the winds shifted from the north and the boat traffic let up, so did the bite for me.
While I caught a fair number of perch, it was the largemouth that were most prevalent. The dropping water and warmer temps seem to be pushing them out of the flood vegetation to the weed edges. The only issue is most were small, but that could be said of everything but the crappie, and maybe the 14 inch white bass.
Lots of variety, white bass, largemouth, smallmouth, bluegill, walleye, crappie, and yellow perch. Lucky seven so to speak.
Most of my fish came out of water 8-15 ft deep, but I really didn't try to fish very shallow as I'm still on a quest to get a MA white bass.
The top fly today, was a 1.5 olive/white clouser which I suspect is being taken for a perch fry. Second was Gray/white, but everything I tried caught fish.
Anyway, with the dropping levels and warm water, the deeper edges look to be your best bet.
The bit of humor, was a boat of three worked deep in the weeds near the Greeley intake. As I passed them they were blanked, but soon a heard enough whooping and hollering to let the entire lake know a fish was caught. It looked like a decent bass, but based on the noise you'd think state record :) Good for them, zeal is great.
The only other couple I spoke with reported catching a few small white bass in the Heinricy channell, 6-8 inch fish.
