Crappie started as and still are one of my favorite fish. Spring is here Crappie fishing for many is tied ... they grow to a “keeper size” quickly. Regulations vary from one body of water ...

A year after the state imposed a 12-inch minimum-size limit for any crappie caught in Lake Monroe, the fishing effort is down, the harvest is down and so is the income at the lake’s only bait ...

“Because no one agrees no matter what kind of list you compile,” said Huffman, one of the nation’s top authorities on crappie fishing ... an up-cycle of super-size fish earned Sardis ...