I talked to a friend who lives on the lake and was told the crappie he is catching are away from the stumps in open water.He fishes the north end east of tuttle. He is hooking nice size too. Hope this helps you all.

Fished the lower end of the lake near Jamestown, all day Friday and half a day today.  Were trying for walleye but caught lots of everything but walleye.  We were fishing in water mainly between 10-30' so we may have been too deep.  Friday was good all day with good numbers of crappie, perch, smallmouth bass, white bass?, and channel cats.  All fish were caught on minnows and night crawlers, mostly minnows.  Had success both drifting and still fishing with slip bobbers. 
 
A nice day and a half of fishing.

Fished a local tourney (Buck Daniels Invitational) with a bunch of buddies there on Saturday and fished off Linesville in the stumps.  Either end of Whaley island produced most of the 'eyes for our group, other 'eyes were caught off the Red Cross and Wilson Sand Bar.  Between 52 guys, 30 'eyes were landed, big fish prize to a 25 1/2" fish.  Most fish were 18 to 22.  Most fish were caught on plain lead heads (chartreuse favorite) tipped with 1/2 a crawler drifted (when you could get enough breeze) a few fish caught on whole crawlers on bare hook, a few fish on minnies, and a few fish caught trolling Hot-n-tots.  Tons and tons of crappies were caught as well.  I cleaned fish for 2 1/2 hours Saturday and my hands are still cramped up from working the electric knife.  One group of 2 anglers had 8 'eyes, 1 group of 3 had 7 'eyes (including the big fish), 1 group of 3 had 4 'eyes, my boat of 2 guys had 2 'eyes, and a bunch of singles mixed throughout the rest of tourney field. 

How late in the year does the walleye and crappie action usually stay hot in the north end of the lake?  I was thinking that by now things would be slowing down up there and most of the action would be in the deeper water south of the causeway.

You would think that they would be deeper.  We caught ours in 5' of water and some teams were as shallow as 4'.  i agree with the now rhyme or reason.  One day you catch abunch of fish go to the same spot the next day and get skunked.

The Doggie's MDA tourney is run every year out of Crystal Lake Inn aka Doggies. It is a bar in hartstown and they have an eye tourney every year to benefit a local charity. Normally like end of April beginning of May.

don't know if this is any help, but i talked to amish up there a week ago, and they were all getting fish (3 boatloads) trolling nightcrawlers.  believe they were north of birches' landing. (ohio side, north of stockers).  also, a buddy has been hitting them trolling shallow, 6-8 feet, on small chrome and black crankbaits.  forgot to ask him where.  any other time i would have been able to provide a better report, but because we are in the middle of a move (lasted all spring) i haven't been able to fish much this year.  first time in 30 years.  

Snod grass will be good for awhile i think 6-15 fow we did ok.

It would make more sense if those fish caught that shallow were on considerably cloudy days, but otherwise it makes no sense with the water temperature where it's at.

i believe shad are the primary forage, but alewifes have been introduced into the lake (thought to be the reason for the failure of stockings) and they too have become a significant forage species.  thinking about starting a fishing club.....aass......alewife anglers sportsmens society       :-))  

Anyone having any luck fishing from shore?

I lived down that way for a few years,.... I'm not going to get started. How do you say hypocrite in german?

weFished thursday boated 2 nice walleyes 18and 24 and a nice white bass 16 ohh and a 35 inch musky very rough and stormy