Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about CRAPPIE!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the common name (also spelled croppie or crappé) derives from the Canadian French crapet . other names for crappie include papermouths, strawberry bass, speckled bass or specks . crappie have diverse diets, including zooplankton, insects, and crustaceans . by day, crappie tend to be less active and will concentrate around weed beds . they feed during dawn and du the current all-tackle fishing world record for a black crappie is 2.47 kg (5.4 lb) “spider rigging” is a method characterized by a fisherman in a boat commercial fishery for crappies existed at Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee until 2003 . it was one of the few commercial fisheries in recent decades . crappies can be taken from frozen ponds and lakes in winter by The Sunfishes-A Fly Fishing Journey of Discovery. Bennington, VT: Abenaki Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-936644-17-6. Rice, F. Philip (1964). America’s Panfishing. New York: Stackpole Books. ISBN 0-943822-25-4. Malo, John (1981). ISBN 0-87518-208-9. Nelson, Gary; Martin, Richard; Sutton, Keith (1991). Panfishing. Minneapolis, MN: North American Fishing Club. ISBN 0-914697-37-4.