The I 82 ponds have been playing Jeckel and Hyde with me lately with either very productive trips or very poor fishing for a number of my friends. The Crappie have been proving elusive for many even though it is peak time for them to be moving shallow. This report was focused on an area along the I 82 corridor called The Byron Ponds near Prosser. This series of sloughs has been productive in the past and when the fish are biting, it can bean awesome place for me to field test my custom made crappie jigs. The main drawback to these ponds is that any time it is warm and you get near russian olives there are a lot of ticks, so i had to check myself after I got back to my rig. Still it was well worth the effort. The crappie and sunfish were suspended and I was able to make long, wind assisted casts with a 1.75" Crappie Midget jig set at 2 1/2 feet on a cigar shaped stick bobber. When the fish started biting I put 22 on the bank in less than a 1/2 hour. The biggest fish went just over 9". My best color was a watermelon red flake Crappie Midget with a chartruse tail on a 1/32 oz Northland lure black jighead with a yellow eye. My Crappie Midget creation has been my hottest selling bait this spring and guys are ordering them from me daily. I want to hit the peak of the crappie spawn over the next few weeks. Hope to see more of you crappie addicts on the water! Jiggy