Spent 4 days at Alamo, would have to report we had slow fishing for crappie. I have to admit that I think we could have done better if some of the circumstances might have been different. My wife and I had a husband and wife team along that love to fish but just never seem to learn how, we have fished them at different times for 20 years and they really never seem to learn. The first day out we caught catfish and bass and no crappie. The second day we caught 7 crappie, 4 catfish and several bass. The third day 4 crappie, a couple bass and catfish.
Not sure what is happening at Alamo but these are my thoughts from what I found and talking to others.
Three weeks ago reportedly the fish were hot, up on beds etc: We caught our fish in 6 feet of water, all 11 crappie were larger males, very black, no females. Talked to others that had fish (up to 18 for a boat of 3 anglers) all were caught in 20 to 24 feet of water, all were females except 2. The eggs did not look like they were close. My thoughts are (1) either they started and then were forced out because of weather change and are not going to spawn this year or (2) the hot action 3 weeks ago was the first movement of fish and the majority of the fish have yet to move up.
I had water temps of 67 to 71 depending on time of day and wind. That was surface temps.
I am in no way an expert on Alamo and I don't claim to be an expert on Crappie but that is my observations and report.
Biggest Crappie was 15" but all were nice sized.
Hoping to see some improvement guys and gals!