I gotta agree with you I've been wanting to catch a few myself. I don't ever have much luck fishing the rivers for crappie this time of year though. Now November all the way to early spring I do and it's a lot of fun. I'm catching em with jigs and minnows or ill toss a roostertail. I've never fished the places you've mentioned. Though I fish the beechfork and rolling fork rivers and occasionally the salt.