# Pineview Crappie Question. **URL:** \ **Category:** Utah Fishing General\ **Created:** [April 20, 2009, 5:54am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/pineview-crappie-question/147966 "2009-04-20T05:54:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brifish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@brifish](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/brifish)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 5:54am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/pineview-crappie-question/147966/1 "2009-04-20T05:54:30Z")
I have never caught a crappie, and was planning to go to Pineview sometime this spring to catch some. I was wondering if anybody on this board could tell me when a good time might be to head up there to catch some. And if Pineview has a good population that bite in the spring right before the spawn. I have only seen them caught accasionaly through the ice. Any info would help. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![kochanut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kochanut](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/kochanut)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 8:22am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/pineview-crappie-question/147966/2 "2009-04-20T08:22:29Z")
lunkerhunter2 has some good info, might want to send him a PM ---
**Author:** ![wiperhunter2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3d9bf3/32.png) [@wiperhunter2](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/wiperhunter2)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/pineview-crappie-question/147966/3 "2009-04-20T16:48:07Z")
It really depends on how the water warms up but last year about the first of May they started moving toward the shallows. Here is a report I posted during that time a year ago. Check out the pictures [;)]. WH2 [http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=413077;search\_string=crappie;#413077](http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=413077;search_string=crappie;#413077) ---
**Author:** ![Springbuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@Springbuck](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Springbuck)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/pineview-crappie-question/147966/4 "2009-04-22T00:07:37Z")
This has been a weird year, bu I used to go up there a lot, and the MO was that the ice comes off, then the reservoir fills kinda rapidly after that. The brush in areas of the banks floods and the crappies m ove in once the water warms up. Can’t tremember the ideal temp, but it is about 60 F? I’ll look it up. Anyway, I have caught bunches of them as early as late March, if the ice came off early. My feeling is that the water will warm fast this year, since the period and angle of sunlight per day is even more important than the air temperature. I think it should be soon. I also had the most luck on sunny days toward mid -day, early in the year, then more in the morning as we moved into later spring, and it got warmer. After late June, I can never find them, as I have no sonar… ---
**Author:** ![submoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@submoa](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/submoa)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/pineview-crappie-question/147966/5 "2009-04-22T01:29:13Z")
Those were some nice crappies! Licking my lips, am hungry now. Think I’ll throw a steak on the grill, rather have fried crappie but a ribeye will have to do. ---
**Author:** ![fishguru73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4af34b/32.png) [@fishguru73](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/fishguru73)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/pineview-crappie-question/147966/6 "2009-04-22T06:11:17Z")
I’ll second that, but I still have a freezer full of crappie filets from last year.😊 Yes, the crappie will go into the shoreline structure at 60 degrees because they spawn at 64. The huge snow accumulation this year means that the melt off will cause cold temperatures into early summer and the spawn will happen much later this year. Since the water will go from cold to warm quickly there will only be a 2 to 3 week opportunity to get them on their spawning beds. The cool thing is that their daily movements in the summer her are like their spring movements down south where I learned to catch them and they get really predictable. Post something for the next time you go after them and i’ll give you my best estimation. ---
**Author:** ![jurkneyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@jurkneyes](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/jurkneyes)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 7:00am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/pineview-crappie-question/147966/7 "2009-04-22T07:00:46Z")
Just got back from Pineview. Water temps are 48 in main lake to as warm as 60 in the bays. I got in to the crappie today. They were all nice fish. What I like to do is just hit as many of the bays as you can tell you find them. I was just using a little tube jig under a float today. I think this is the best time of the spring to go after them. There usually in good sized schools and hungry. It does not take long for the crappie to move shallow after the ice comes off and the ice just came off completely last week. Hope this helps…