Thank you all for your help.

I fished again with a roadrunner and twister tail.

Caught 12, 4-5" crappie with big eyes for such small fish. Caught one 9" thin crappie . All went on the bank.

I had many get off the hook close to the boats all tiny crappie.


On the pond:

The spillover pipe is 10-12' above the water level. Lots of weeds growing in water. Lots of shallow water, only an acre of >10' water level.

I had an excavator guy say he thinks the dam has a leak due to the dam being completely grown over in autumn olive and roots causing small leak

He of course wants to drain it and dig it out to make it deeper, getting down to clay bottom.