I've caught thousands of crappie in my life time and spent a half of my days trying to figure out the how to,s. Crappies school together, find one, you can find them all. Once you find the depth of there location on the fish finder, you can proceed to target them any where around the lake or river at that same depth of water. Crappies like sunrises and at dawn to feed. The warmer the days, the better fishing in the evenings, the warmer the nights the better fishing early mornings. On still waters you will see them come to the surface to feed along with the BIG bull blue gill, fish these areas. Large crappie don't travel far from there home areas. LETS FISH.... Crappie rod, 8 to ten ft. rod, slow action. {B&M makes an outstanding rod}. 3 to 4 pound test mono. Reel of your choice. Set your drag as light as possible, these fish have paper thin mouths and will rip the hooks out..... LURES, Rebel and slamo make the smallest floating/diving lures, get 2 that are orange crayfish imitations. tie them on to your line, troll them behind the boat at about 30 yds; just fast enough that you can see the rod tip working with the lure, I row the boat instead of a using trolling motor, crappie don't like motor noise. Row over the areas that look productive. If your using 2 rods you will find it nice that the lures don't sink into the weeds while you stopped rowing. THE BONUS..... You will catch a lot of big CRAPPIE worth taking home to mama, plus some nice jumbo Blue gill. The small fish of both species wont mess with this technique. Good luck and enjoy, and let me know how you do. Remember study the water..... Martin S.