by Questor » Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:02 am
Just a bit of extra info, most crappie fishermen here in Minnesota seem to focus on lakes, but the biggest ones I've caught have been in rivers. While most people are after walleye and northerns and white bass etc, the crappies seem to be fat, happy, and underfished. I don't catch them where the other fishermen are. My biggest was a loner caught in the Snake river from a grassy undercut bank near fast water that looked like a brown trout lair. I don't know the weight, but it was a real wall hanger. I released it.
(The same has been true for me with sunfish.)