As each day lengthens and the sun's power strengthens, warming waters trigger the spawning urge in crappie. They gradually move from their wintertime holding patterns in deep water into shallows where ...

The species has lots of names — crappie (pronounced the way it looks only in the Carolinas; elsewhere as croppie), sac au lait, speckled perch, slabs, and many more. Call the crappie what you will ...

In a fishing-report update tour crappie angler and guide Barry Morrow of Eufaula said don’t overlook the shallows for summertime crappie. Morrow said he had been catching crappie at 12-14 feet around ...