Pat, sounds to me like the crappie are scattered or not bunched up. In the lakes I fished for crappie, we would freshen up our brush tops using willow tops, tried other brush, but willows worked best. By freshening up the brush, it would bring the crappie in. I would also try Tbar's cotton seed cake and would add it to the new brush tops, after all what could it hert? And I always did better when I fished on Bluebird days when fishing for crappie, they headed to brush piles on those days, I guess they liked the shade of the brush piles.
Tracy
