pymatuning crappies

Saturday, our crappie club picked up quite a bunch between us. Some fished the linesville stumps and the rest were in the bays near Pandanarama launch. Sunday, some of us went back to linesville and did pretty good again. Ed caught 23 himself.

Inside the little pockets around Clark and Harris Islands is always a hot spot, but I heard behind Tuttle Island was hot this past weekend!
Causeway still slow! Maybe in the next week or so the black crappie will start moving deeper.

I've been fishing since the ice went off(actually there was still ice on the lake but none on the coves) and I finally picked up my first black crappie on Tuesday night.  Every fish I have gotten has been white.  Although the black that I did get was 1lb9oz.  Of course so long as a crappie is over 8-9" I could care less what color it is.
 
Now for my report...  I did good this weekend.  Ended up with 25crappie on Sunday and a few on Tuesday.  Agreement with the previous post, find 4FOW or so and small (1/32oz) jigs or colored hooks.

I don't know about the crappie, but I know the walleye have been hitting.

i was wondering if someone could help me out? i'm going to be at tuttle campground from wed. to sun. to crappie fish. i was wondering if anyone knows the water temp. are the crappie just coming to spawn? it sounds like they are just now coming in and i should be timing it right. thanks for any info.

wallyeye taker, i wasn't trying to trick anybody but im having a hard time getting reregistered on this site.it won't let me use papermouth but i'll figure it out. thanks for the heads up on the construction.and the water temp info. looking at the 10-day forecast we might have good weather. see ya thursday.

walleye taker i'm back i had to have a chat with the web master. but alls good now. if you don't mind me asking what did you catch your crappies on? see ya thursday have a safe trip

Storm, I fish the NW part of the lake, Wilsons down through the red cross area.  I don't know if one of us has miss-identified what we're catching(if that's the case it's probably me) but I catch all mine in shallow weady area.  Check out this link... http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/wildlife/Fishing/aquanotes-fishid/bcrappie.htm
 

Storm,  Have you been out on On Pymie lately.  We're going tonight to try for some crappie.  Have been catching some nice 'gills in Conneaut Lake the past week or so.

Fished Pymy with my daughter for a couple hours last night.  Historical hot spot was a big ZERO, so at my little girl's request, we moved back towards the launch, set up in 6 fow on a stump and finished the evening off strong including 8 crappies over 12, two small ones, a perch and a channel cat.  All fish seemed suspended or were actively chasing, slip b's were set at 4 & 5 feet down.
 
 

REF, I am here right now sitting in my camper answering your question. SLOW. Caught one tonight, its slow. 

Hello everyone,
My hubby and I were fishing around Harris Island a week ago on Sunday and I caught a 12 inch crappie. Are there bigger ones than that in pymie?
We caught a few other ones but not as big.. That was our first time on the lake in years. We just bought an old MFG Westfield boat and fixed it up,
so being retired now and enjoying some fishing.  I love this forum.. Read it every day.. Thanks for all the great info..    Lois

Thank you, Mick.
Will be out there trying to get some bigger ones soon.
It's pretty exciting fighting them. It really felt like I was getting a bigger one..
Lois

Mikastorm, Wow that is a GREAT fish.
Where is the watershed??? Or is that a secret???
We love to fish we just don't know where to go on Pymie...
Thank you for the great picture.  If I ever get one like that I will surely send you a picture...
Lois

A water shed is actually the area of land that catches the water.