Toledo Bend is my a mile the best for big ones and numbers - untill this year the limit was 50 a day - the most in Texas

Palestine and Fork.... And don't forget Tawakoni

OK, I'll lay it down right here....I could be wrong but, I'm thinkin it'll take close to 14 1/2# to win the championship tomorrow.

If the weather don't get them, it should be easy to get a 14 # stringer for them boys!

Doubt it. In the fall maybe. I have caught my personal best on Fork with Grapevine a close second. Third would be LOP for me.

Hubbard Creek used to be the best for both numbers and big fish. My Mother and 2 Aunts caught numerous 3 lb. crappie out of there in the 80's & 90's. With the water level problems Hubbard has had the last 10 years I am not sure how it is now.


Johnny

In fact, I'll go so far as to predict that 25#+ is the winning 2-day total, though Saturday could be just as good as Friday. It wouldn't surprise me if 14#+ was weighed in both days. Just sayin.

Pepop, I like your style dude. How bout if I win you take me fishing at Palestine. If you win I'll take you fishing at Texoma or Fork. In?
I bet the 2 day total will be 23 lbs...

I can tell you the lake NOT to go to..Cedar Creek Lake...ain't got no more crappie in it....so just stay away and try some other pond...CCL is plumb out of slabs...go see Pepop on Palestine, he needs some help!
CCL is dry and ramps are closed and the water stinks..so just stay away.....I'm just sayin...

NOT!!!!!!! Cedar Creek is chock full of huge slab crappie! Palestine will be empty of big slabs after CAT gets thru.

It changes year to year in NM. Santa Rosa had big slabs and Elephant Butte has nice ones but more quantity. Then Ute had the big slabs. Here the drought and water levels that in turn effect the shad population has a ripple effect, that you see in the numbers and size. Says me that fishes pretty much only in the spring for crappie in New Mexico.

I will let you know what I find in a few weeks at Rayburn. I have caught some big ones there.

I would have to say Navarro Mills Lake home of the 3 lb. Crappie.

There is a very small lake in East Texas that has monsters in it or did. In the past few years it has been over fished. My wife thirteen years ago caught one that was 20 1/2". All I had was the old spring type scales and it was rusted so couldn't get a weight. During the spawn,the small fish were 15".The fish she caught was on Easter and was released . Now for big fish it is Palestine or Fork for me. I only go to Palestine when Pepop doesn't have it closed.

Psst...I let you in on a BIG secret. The best crappie lake and the one with the most and biggest crappie is....

The one nearest and dearest to your heart. Go and find it my friend.

When you do please tell us all about it!

I also noticed lately cedar creek stinkin like hell, wish they had some fish in there, maybe a 20 pound hybrid or 2.