With so many hunting and fishing options crappies are all but ignored between now and first ice, even though some of the year's best opportunities for a nice sack of slabs occurs over the next 30 days. I would rather fish crappies on a river system than a lake. Chasing slabs in the fall is typically a boom or bust scenario. But wood is always part of the strategy. On a huge river like the Mississippi crappies like to suspend about four feet down on woody cover with a bottom depth of 10-14 feet. On small to medium rivers check snags and driftpiles next to-but not in current. On Ol' Man River target primarily running sloughs and backwat...
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