I love to catch crappie. It's fun and it can be challenging if you are trying to catch a limit of big slabs. I admit that it's slower paced that bass fishing and the bass actually are more fun to catch as they fight harder. But how many time do you catch 25 bass in one spot? And I can actually help the ecosystem by removing some crappie from my home lake. Crappie can reproduce very fast and each female lays thousands of eggs. So removing a few of the fish (especially some of the little ones) helps the fish that remain. There is more food for them and it helps the one's left grow faster in the smaller lake that I fish. At least that's the plan of the Southern IN fisheries biologist that regulates my home district.
Now most anyone can easily catch some crappie in the spring when they are spawning and it the shallows. Shoreline fisherman catch a lot of crappie during the spawn in Early and Mid April in my latitude. Crappie live in the south and the north as well as the east and west of the USA.
And they are very good eating if you clean them right and deep fry them up and put some lemon juice, salt and pepper and some good fish fry batter on them. I love small crappie fillets between two pieces of bread and with a little Mayo on the bread. Ad a little Cyan Pepper into the fix mix and they are umm umm good.
Originally Posted by toomanycasts
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