Locating & Catching Post-spawn Crappies

As crappies finish spawning, the larger females begin leaving nesting sites, while the males remain to protect eggs and fry during the incubation and hatching process. Females begin filtering out across the adjacent flats, toward but not yet into the deeper water of the basin. Developing weed flats outside the mouths of spawning bays, or adjacent to stands of main-lake reedbeds, become focal points of post-spawn and presummer activity.