Most fishermen keep the extreme details to themselves, and in many cases, they should. The stuff that I like to share is the information that can lead someone to the water, metaphorically, whether they drink or not is up to them. But things like 60 feet of water fishing 8-12 feet deep, submersible lights were 6' down, jig tipped minnow, shit like that. Not exact locations or anything.
I haven't been crappie fishing in 4 weeks but the last few times I was at Roosevelt (most recently early May - I have fished Bartlett once in my life), I ran out of minnow on 2/3 occasions. The 2 successful nights, I had crappie hit the surface exactly as you mentioned. Originally thought they were LM, then possibly YB, then I had this big bastard crappie come right underneath the light before smacking the surface, so I enjoyed reading your details on that.
Also the light bite, my last experience at roosevelt the only fish that hit it hard with the YB, most crappie wouldn't pull the rod down, 9/10 times I caught because I would periodically lift up and bam, they was a crappie sucking down the minnow on the other end, can't forget that they feed upwards and don't have to go back down right away.
Your "switch it up" approach is key, I like to practice the same as you mentioned something worked then stopped etc.
You doing this well with submersible lights under a full moon isn't that common, just intriguing I guess.. Great job again, that must have been fun to fillet!
