Between 3 groups of us (13 guys total), not a single bite.  Lit them up last weeking bring home 100 slabs between 15 of us and threw plenty of smaller ones back.  It was dead this weekend but water temps are deff warming and should stay with the warm up this week. 

My neighbor went yesterday. He and his son kept 17 over 14". Said it was really rough. He only fished for a few hours.

I have never really targeted crappie on Pymatuning, only walleye. Somehow we always manage to land a few when we are out there but purely by accident.  I would really like to try it here in the spring and throughout the summer. Any tips for a novice? Areas to target and prefered methods, live bait, small jigs etc.  I appreciate the help!

I fished last friday(4-5) morning from 10-1pm   Nothing at the spillway (high winds) and caught a few crappies and perch wading a bay in the north end.
 
I returned with some friends saturday (4-6) evening, fished from 430-730.
Caught abt 24 slabs and had a nice fish fry, again wading in the bays of the north end.
 
Some things i noticed...
The bay i fished friday was full of guys on saturday evening. They parked their cars and fished the first water they saw. These guys were yelling loudly about "the bite picking up soon." I saw them catch nothing but dink crappie. Then you had the guys in boats anchoring 50 feet away from the shore fisherman and they all sat there looking at each other, barely catching fish.
 
My friends and I walked abt 2,000 feet from the car and fished a bay around the corner. It was a swampy, rough walk.  We had our chains full in abt an hour and a half.
A few guys in a boat saw us catching and then motored abt 30-40 yds from our hole while they exited the bay. They did not have to come that close. We did not catch a fish for 20 mins after that boat passed.
 
If you choose to fish from shore, exercise sound discipline. We were waist deep in the water, and caught many fish within 10' of us! The fish will be in close to the shore if you are wading.
 
If you are in a  boat and you anchor 30 yards from me.. i hope you smash your prop on a stump.
 
Saw about 15 boats at the spillway on saturday evening and some guys on shore. I heard some walleyes were caught.
 
Lots of guys fishing on top of each other right now, but if you can get even 100yds away form them..you stand a good chance of finding your own honey hole, and often larger fish.
 
Tight lines, the season has started men!

CU,
I think I saw you Sat night. Was lookin for somewhere to go and was ticked I left my waders at home.  Did you see a guy in a white Civic roll past you with a guy wiping the drool from his mouth.  All I ended up with was dinks, nothin like what you had.

Fished for about 5 hours today and nothing. Hit all the islands in the stumps. 2 gills. Cold front scared them away for a day or two.

Fished all day yesterday with a couple of friends. In the morning we put in on the Ohio side at the Padanaram launch fished all around that area all the way up into Wilson bay. My fish finder read the water temp from 44-48 degrees.  Didn't catch a thing, didn't see any fish caught from other boats.
Around lunch time we moved over to the Linesville launch, tucked up tight against whaley Island and did pretty good on perch for the rest of the afternoon. No Crappie, no eyes. Water temp ranged from 49-52 degrees.
Tight lines & God bless!
John 

Fished 4-15 from 930-100pm
bay 41 and jaemstown bays, from shore
nothing

Where did all the Cappie go? Fished three hours today and just couldn't find them. Caught 2 small eye fishing for Crappie. Go figure.

Finally got into them this morning.  Tried for some eyes but got there to late and the darn wind wasn't helping any so went crappie fishing.  First spot I picked up two biguns near the dam in 14 fow.  Headed up the lake to get out of the wind and fish some brush piles in 14-18 fow. Dropped the first line down and before I  could the second line down had a nice 13 incher. Quit when I had 20 over 12 inches.  The fish were all on one side of the brush pile  right on the bottom.  You could only get a hit when the wind blew the boat and bait into the brush pile.  None of the fish had eggs in them.