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Crappies are speckled freshwater fish that, as it happens, taste best fried in a beer batter, which made the beer prohibition even more confounding to some.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2012

Crappies in open water are feeding and usually moving.

From Time Magazine Archive

Summer: Crappies favor cooler water, if the dissolved oxygen content is tolerable, and they will migrate offshore to find their comfort level as the weather warms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Crappies in Southern waters will stage in such areas after the spawn, recovering and feeding sporadically.

From Time Magazine Archive

Crappies have delicate lips, but I use a barbless hook.

From Gone Fishing by Schmitz, James H.