Black Crappie
Pomoxis nigromaculatus
A deep, papery-mouthed panfish speckled with dark green blotches, the black crappie is a favourite of spring and ice anglers for its schooling habits and sweet white fillets. It hovers around submerged wood, weed edges, and docks throughout southern and central Ontario.
Submerged brush, weed lines, and docks in warm, slow water; suspends in schools.
How to Catch Black Crappie
Whether you're new to targeting Black Crappie or refining your approach, success starts with matching your tactics to where the fish lives. Black Crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) is typically found in lake water and river water, so concentrate your effort where those conditions line up. Mature Black Crappie average around 10 inches, which helps you choose the right line, lure size, and tackle for the fight.
Where to Find Black Crappie in the USA & Canada
Black Crappie is recorded across a range of North American waters, including spots in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Quebec, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Browse the linked water guides below to see the specific lakes, rivers, and coastal waters where anglers report catching Black Crappie, then plan a trip around the water closest to you.
Black Crappie Fishing Regulations & Limits
Fishing rules for Black Crappie vary by state and province. Before you head out, check the daily bag limits, minimum size limits, and open seasons that apply in your area. When FishFinder has matching records, the regulations link below takes you to the rules hub. Following local limits keeps Black Crappie populations healthy for future seasons.
Related Water Guides for Black Crappie
Explore these FishFinder water guides for places where Black Crappie is recorded:
- Rideau Lakes — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake of the Woods — Black Crappie fishing water
- Wabigoon Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lac Seul — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Scugog — Black Crappie fishing water
- Pigeon Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Buckhorn Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Rice Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Fleuve Saint-Laurent — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Guntersville — Black Crappie fishing water
- Wheeler Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Wilson Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Pickwick Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Weiss Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lay Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Logan Martin Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Neely Henry Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Martin — Black Crappie fishing water
- R.L. Harris Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Yates Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Thurlow Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Walter F. George Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- West Point Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lewis Smith Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Alabama River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Mobile-Tensaw Delta — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Jackson (Florala) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Powell — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Mead — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Havasu — Black Crappie fishing water
- Theodore Roosevelt Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Saguaro Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Bartlett Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Pleasant — Black Crappie fishing water
- Alamo Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Bull Shoals Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Norfork — Black Crappie fishing water
- Beaver Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Greers Ferry Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Ouachita — Black Crappie fishing water
- DeGray Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Greeson — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Dardanelle — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Chicot — Black Crappie fishing water
- Arkansas River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lower Mississippi River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Clear Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Shasta Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Oroville — Black Crappie fishing water
- Folsom Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Berryessa — Black Crappie fishing water
- San Luis Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- New Melones Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Diamond Valley Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Castaic Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Cahuilla — Black Crappie fishing water
- Navajo Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Chatfield Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Pueblo Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- John Martin Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Horsetooth Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Bantam Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Pachaug Pond — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lums Pond — Black Crappie fishing water
- Becks Pond — Black Crappie fishing water
- Killens Pond — Black Crappie fishing water
- Trap Pond — Black Crappie fishing water
- Records Pond — Black Crappie fishing water
- Concord Pond — Black Crappie fishing water
- Silver Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Andrews Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Garrisons Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Coursey Pond — Black Crappie fishing water
- Wagamons Pond — Black Crappie fishing water
- Red Mill Pond — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Okeechobee — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Kissimmee — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Tohopekaliga — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake George — Black Crappie fishing water
- St. Johns River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Rodman Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Harris — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Seminole — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Talquin — Black Crappie fishing water
- Perdido River — Black Crappie fishing water
- St. Marys River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Jackson (Walton County) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Lanier — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Hartwell — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Oconee — Black Crappie fishing water
- Clarks Hill Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- West Point Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Walter F. George — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Blackshear — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Burton — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Richard B. Russell — Black Crappie fishing water
- Oconee River — Black Crappie fishing water
- C.J. Strike Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Brownlee Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Lowell — Black Crappie fishing water
- Mississippi River (Illinois-Iowa Border) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Fox Chain O'Lakes — Black Crappie fishing water
- Heidecke Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Clinton Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Shelbyville — Black Crappie fishing water
- Sangchris Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Decatur — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Springfield — Black Crappie fishing water
- Coffeen Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Carlyle Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Rend Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Kinkaid Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Crab Orchard Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Ohio River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Monroe Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Patoka Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Brookville Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Cecil M. Harden Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Cagles Mill Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Mississinewa Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Salamonie Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- J. Edward Roush Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Turtle Creek Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Wawasee — Black Crappie fishing water
- Webster Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Geist Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- West Okoboji Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Spirit Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Clear Lake (Iowa) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Storm Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Big Creek Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Pleasant Creek Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Rathbun — Black Crappie fishing water
- Saylorville Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Red Rock — Black Crappie fishing water
- Coralville Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Mississippi River (Iowa Waters) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Kentucky Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Barkley — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Cumberland — Black Crappie fishing water
- Dale Hollow Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Barren River Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Cave Run Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Green River Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Taylorsville Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Nolin River Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Rough River Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Laurel River Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Grayson Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Buckhorn Lake (Kentucky) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Dewey Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Fishtrap Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Yatesville Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Herrington Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Kentucky River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Toledo Bend Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Caddo Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Sabine River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Poverty Point Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- False River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Eagle Lake (Louisiana) — Black Crappie fishing water
- John K. Kelly-Grand Bayou Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Bussey Brake — Black Crappie fishing water
- D'Arbonne Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Atchafalaya Basin — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lac des Allemands — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Verret — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Bistineau — Black Crappie fishing water
- Cross Lake (Louisiana) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Claiborne — Black Crappie fishing water
- Chicot Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Black Lake (Louisiana) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Red River (Louisiana) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Ouachita River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Henderson Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Great Pond — Black Crappie fishing water
- Pushaw Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Deep Creek Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Youghiogheny River Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Potomac River (Upper) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Liberty Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Loch Raven Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Prettyboy Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Piney Run Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Little Seneca Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- St. Mary's Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Conowingo Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Triadelphia Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Rocky Gap Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Onota Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Pontoosuc Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Congamond Lakes — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Chaubunagungamaug — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Cochituate — Black Crappie fishing water
- Connecticut River (Massachusetts) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Houghton Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Gun Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Hudson — Black Crappie fishing water
- Thornapple Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Leech Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Vermilion — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Kabetogama — Black Crappie fishing water
- Gull Lake Chain — Black Crappie fishing water
- Upper Red Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Minnetonka — Black Crappie fishing water
- Whitefish Chain — Black Crappie fishing water
- Pelican Lake (St. Louis County) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake of the Woods (Minnesota) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Rainy Lake (Minnesota) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Basswood Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- St. Croix River (Minnesota) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Pepin — Black Crappie fishing water
- St. Louis River Estuary — Black Crappie fishing water
- Red River of the North — Black Crappie fishing water
- Big Stone Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Ross Barnett Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Grenada Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Sardis Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Enid Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Arkabutla Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Pickwick Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway — Black Crappie fishing water
- Eagle Lake (Mississippi) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Washington — Black Crappie fishing water
- Moon Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Choctaw Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Davis Lake (Chickasaw County) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Lamar Bruce — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Monroe — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Okhissa — Black Crappie fishing water
- Calling Panther Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Neshoba County Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Tangipahoa (Percy Quin State Park) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Pascagoula River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Bogue Homa — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake of the Ozarks — Black Crappie fishing water
- Harry S. Truman Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Table Rock Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Bull Shoals Lake (Missouri) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Norfork Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Stockton Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Pomme de Terre Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Mark Twain Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Smithville Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Wappapello Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Long Branch Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Thomas Hill Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Montrose Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Mississippi River (Pools 20-26) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Bighorn Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Tongue River Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Merritt Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Calamus Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Harlan County Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Sherman Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Elwood Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Branched Oak Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Wanahoo — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lewis and Clark Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Box Butte Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Minatare — Black Crappie fishing water
- Smith Lake WMA — Black Crappie fishing water
- Pelican Lake (Valentine NWR) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Flanagan Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Zorinsky Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Red Willow Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Grove Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Two Rivers SRA — Black Crappie fishing water
- Wagon Train Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Prairie Queen Recreation Area — Black Crappie fishing water
- Johnson Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Maloney — Black Crappie fishing water
- Willow Creek Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Mason Valley Wildlife Management Area — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Mead (Nevada) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Eagle Valley Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Echo Canyon Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Winnipesaukee — Black Crappie fishing water
- Winnisquam Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Massabesic Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Connecticut River (New Hampshire) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Merrimack River (New Hampshire) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Hopatcong — Black Crappie fishing water
- Greenwood Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Spruce Run Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Mercer Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Assunpink Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Parvin Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Alloway Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Manasquan Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- White Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Union Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Navajo Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Abiquiu Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Cochiti Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Elephant Butte Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Conchas Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Santa Rosa Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Champlain — Black Crappie fishing water
- Oneida Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Great Sacandaga Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Chautauqua Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Black Lake (New York) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Whitney Point Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Chatuge — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Santeetlah — Black Crappie fishing water
- Fontana Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake James — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Norman — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Wylie — Black Crappie fishing water
- Badin Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Tillery — Black Crappie fishing water
- High Rock Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- B. Everett Jordan Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Shearon Harris Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- John H. Kerr Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Gaston — Black Crappie fishing water
- Roanoke River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Cape Fear River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Neuse River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Mattamuskeet — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Phelps — Black Crappie fishing water
- Buckhorn Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Dan River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Devils Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Jamestown Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Pipestem Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Ashtabula — Black Crappie fishing water
- McDowell Dam — Black Crappie fishing water
- Ohio River (Ohio) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Pymatuning Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Alum Creek Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Hoover Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Indian Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Buckeye Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Grand Lake St. Marys — Black Crappie fishing water
- Mosquito Creek Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Milton — Black Crappie fishing water
- Salt Fork Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Paint Creek Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Caesar Creek Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Rocky Fork Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Piedmont Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Seneca Lake (Ohio) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Tappan Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Texoma — Black Crappie fishing water
- Grand Lake O' the Cherokees — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Eufaula — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Tenkiller — Black Crappie fishing water
- Fort Gibson Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Arbuckle Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Murray — Black Crappie fishing water
- Blue River (Oklahoma) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Henry Hagg Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Presque Isle Bay — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Arthur — Black Crappie fishing water
- Nockamixon Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Blue Marsh Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Marburg — Black Crappie fishing water
- Shenango River Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Frances Slocum Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Worden Pond — Black Crappie fishing water
- Olney Pond — Black Crappie fishing water
- Flat River Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Marion — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Moultrie — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Murray (South Carolina) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Greenwood — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Monticello — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Wateree — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Russell — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Thurmond — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Keowee — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Traverse — Black Crappie fishing water
- Waubay Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Bitter Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Enemy Swim Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Poinsett — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Thompson — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Kampeska — Black Crappie fishing water
- Roy Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Angostura Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Belle Fourche Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Shadehill Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Reelfoot Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Old Hickory Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- J. Percy Priest Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Cordell Hull Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Tims Ford Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Center Hill Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Chickamauga Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Nickajack Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Watts Bar Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Parksville Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Fort Loudoun Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Melton Hill Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Norris Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Cherokee Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Douglas Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Boone Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- South Holston Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Watauga Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Fork — Black Crappie fishing water
- Sam Rayburn Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- O.H. Ivie Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Athens — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Conroe — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Ray Hubbard — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Bob Sandlin — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake O' the Pines — Black Crappie fishing water
- Falcon International Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Willard Bay Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Starvation Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Pineview Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Newton Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Red Fleet Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Smith Mountain Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Buggs Island Lake (Kerr Reservoir) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Claytor Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Anna — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Moomaw — Black Crappie fishing water
- Briery Creek Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Sandy River Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Flannagan Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Leesville Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Philpott Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Staunton River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Roosevelt — Black Crappie fishing water
- Banks Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Moses Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Potholes Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Sprague Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Washington (Seattle) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Silver Lake (Cowlitz County) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Snake River (Washington) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Summersville Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Cheat Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Stonewall Jackson Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Bluestone Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Beech Fork Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- R.D. Bailey Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- North Bend Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Burnsville Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Stonecoal Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Winnebago — Black Crappie fishing water
- Wolf River (Wisconsin) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Mississippi River (Wisconsin-Minnesota Boundary) — Black Crappie fishing water
- St. Croix River (Wisconsin) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Menominee River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Chippewa Flowage — Black Crappie fishing water
- Turtle-Flambeau Flowage — Black Crappie fishing water
- Flambeau River — Black Crappie fishing water
- Eagle River Chain of Lakes — Black Crappie fishing water
- Minocqua Chain — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Petenwell — Black Crappie fishing water
- Castle Rock Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Mendota — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Koshkonong — Black Crappie fishing water
- Geneva Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Big Green Lake — Black Crappie fishing water
- Boysen Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
- Lake Cameahwait — Black Crappie fishing water
- Ocean Lake (Wyoming) — Black Crappie fishing water
- Hawk Springs Reservoir — Black Crappie fishing water
Black Crappie Regulations
Review current FishFinder regulation records before targeting Black Crappie:
Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of water is best for catching Black Crappie?
Black Crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) is typically found in lake water and river water. Focus your effort where those conditions line up to improve your chances.
How big does Black Crappie get?
Mature Black Crappie average around 10 inches, though individual fish can run larger. Matching your line, lure size, and tackle to that range makes for a better fight and landing rate.
Where can I catch Black Crappie in the USA and Canada?
Black Crappie is reported across North American waters, including spots in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Quebec, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Check the locations listed on this page to find the lakes, rivers, and coastal waters closest to you.
Do I need a fishing license to catch Black Crappie?
A valid fishing license is required in most US states and Canadian provinces. Daily bag limits, minimum size limits, and open seasons for Black Crappie vary by region, so review the regulations on this page and with your local wildlife authority before heading out.