White Crappie
Pomoxis annularis
A silvery, deep-bodied panfish marked with faint vertical bars, the white crappie tolerates the murkier, more turbid water of Alabama's rivers and flood-control reservoirs better than its black crappie cousin. Schooling around brush and standing timber, it is a mainstay of the state's popular crappie fisheries.
Brush piles, standing timber, and turbid water in reservoirs and rivers.
How to Catch White Crappie
Whether you're new to targeting White Crappie or refining your approach, success starts with matching your tactics to where the fish lives. White Crappie (Pomoxis annularis) is typically found in lake water, river water, and reservoir water, so concentrate your effort where those conditions line up. Mature White Crappie average around 10 inches, which helps you choose the right line, lure size, and tackle for the fight.
Where to Find White Crappie in the USA & Canada
White Crappie is recorded across a range of North American waters, including spots in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Browse the linked water guides below to see the specific lakes, rivers, and coastal waters where anglers report catching White Crappie, then plan a trip around the water closest to you.
White Crappie Fishing Regulations & Limits
Fishing rules for White 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 White Crappie populations healthy for future seasons.
Related Water Guides for White Crappie
Explore these FishFinder water guides for places where White Crappie is recorded:
- Lake Guntersville — White Crappie fishing water
- Wheeler Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Wilson Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Pickwick Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Weiss Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lay Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Logan Martin Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Neely Henry Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Martin — White Crappie fishing water
- R.L. Harris Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Yates Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Thurlow Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Walter F. George Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- West Point Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Lewis Smith Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Alabama River — White Crappie fishing water
- Mobile-Tensaw Delta — White Crappie fishing water
- Theodore Roosevelt Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Bull Shoals Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Norfork — White Crappie fishing water
- Beaver Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Greers Ferry Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Dardanelle — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Chicot — White Crappie fishing water
- Arkansas River — White Crappie fishing water
- Lower Mississippi River — White Crappie fishing water
- Clear Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta — White Crappie fishing water
- Lums Pond — White Crappie fishing water
- Mississippi River (Illinois-Iowa Border) — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Shelbyville — White Crappie fishing water
- Sangchris Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Decatur — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Springfield — White Crappie fishing water
- Coffeen Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Carlyle Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Rend Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Kinkaid Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Crab Orchard Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Ohio River — White Crappie fishing water
- Monroe Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Patoka Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Cecil M. Harden Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Red Rock — White Crappie fishing water
- Mississippi River (Iowa Waters) — White Crappie fishing water
- Milford Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Wilson Reservoir (Kansas) — White Crappie fishing water
- Cheney Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Clinton Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Perry Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- El Dorado Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Kanopolis Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Glen Elder Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Tuttle Creek Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Melvern Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Cedar Bluff Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Council Grove Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Marion Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Pomona Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Hillsdale Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Big Hill Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- John Redmond Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Lovewell Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Kentucky Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Barkley — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Cumberland — White Crappie fishing water
- Dale Hollow Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Barren River Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Cave Run Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Green River Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Taylorsville Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Nolin River Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Rough River Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Laurel River Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Grayson Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Buckhorn Lake (Kentucky) — White Crappie fishing water
- Dewey Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Fishtrap Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Yatesville Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Herrington Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Kentucky River — White Crappie fishing water
- Toledo Bend Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Caddo Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Sabine River — White Crappie fishing water
- Poverty Point Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- False River — White Crappie fishing water
- Eagle Lake (Louisiana) — White Crappie fishing water
- John K. Kelly-Grand Bayou Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Bussey Brake — White Crappie fishing water
- D'Arbonne Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Atchafalaya Basin — White Crappie fishing water
- Lac des Allemands — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Verret — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Bistineau — White Crappie fishing water
- Cross Lake (Louisiana) — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Claiborne — White Crappie fishing water
- Chicot Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Black Lake (Louisiana) — White Crappie fishing water
- Red River (Louisiana) — White Crappie fishing water
- Ouachita River — White Crappie fishing water
- Henderson Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Pepin — White Crappie fishing water
- Ross Barnett Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Grenada Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Sardis Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Enid Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Arkabutla Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Pickwick Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway — White Crappie fishing water
- Eagle Lake (Mississippi) — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Washington — White Crappie fishing water
- Moon Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Choctaw Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Okhissa — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Tangipahoa (Percy Quin State Park) — White Crappie fishing water
- Pascagoula River — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake of the Ozarks — White Crappie fishing water
- Harry S. Truman Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Table Rock Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Bull Shoals Lake (Missouri) — White Crappie fishing water
- Norfork Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Stockton Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Pomme de Terre Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Mark Twain Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Smithville Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Wappapello Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Long Branch Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Thomas Hill Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Montrose Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Mississippi River (Pools 20-26) — White Crappie fishing water
- Tongue River Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Merritt Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Calamus Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Harlan County Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Sherman Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Elwood Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Branched Oak Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Wanahoo — White Crappie fishing water
- Lewis and Clark Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Box Butte Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Minatare — White Crappie fishing water
- Smith Lake WMA — White Crappie fishing water
- Pelican Lake (Valentine NWR) — White Crappie fishing water
- Flanagan Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Zorinsky Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Red Willow Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Grove Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Two Rivers SRA — White Crappie fishing water
- Wagon Train Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Prairie Queen Recreation Area — White Crappie fishing water
- Johnson Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Maloney — White Crappie fishing water
- Willow Creek Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Lahontan Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Chatuge — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake James — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Norman — White Crappie fishing water
- Badin Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Tillery — White Crappie fishing water
- High Rock Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- B. Everett Jordan Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Shearon Harris Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- John H. Kerr Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Gaston — White Crappie fishing water
- Roanoke River — White Crappie fishing water
- Cape Fear River — White Crappie fishing water
- Neuse River — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Mattamuskeet — White Crappie fishing water
- Buckhorn Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Dan River — White Crappie fishing water
- Ohio River (Ohio) — White Crappie fishing water
- Pymatuning Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Alum Creek Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Hoover Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Indian Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Buckeye Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Grand Lake St. Marys — White Crappie fishing water
- Mosquito Creek Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Milton — White Crappie fishing water
- Salt Fork Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Paint Creek Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Caesar Creek Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Rocky Fork Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Piedmont Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Seneca Lake (Ohio) — White Crappie fishing water
- Tappan Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Texoma — White Crappie fishing water
- Grand Lake O' the Cherokees — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Eufaula — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Tenkiller — White Crappie fishing water
- Fort Gibson Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Skiatook Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Sooner Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Thunderbird — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Carl Blackwell — White Crappie fishing water
- Arcadia Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Hefner — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Overholser — White Crappie fishing water
- Arbuckle Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Konawa Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Broken Bow Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Murray — White Crappie fishing water
- Keystone Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Blue River (Oklahoma) — White Crappie fishing water
- Blue Marsh Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Marion — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Moultrie — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Murray (South Carolina) — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Greenwood — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Wateree — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Thurmond — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Traverse — White Crappie fishing water
- Reelfoot Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Old Hickory Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- J. Percy Priest Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Cordell Hull Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Tims Ford Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Center Hill Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Chickamauga Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Nickajack Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Watts Bar Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Fort Loudoun Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Melton Hill Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Norris Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Cherokee Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Douglas Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Boone Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- South Holston Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Fork — White Crappie fishing water
- Sam Rayburn Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- O.H. Ivie Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Alan Henry — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Athens — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Conroe — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Livingston — White Crappie fishing water
- Choke Canyon Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Ray Hubbard — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Tawakoni — White Crappie fishing water
- Richland Chambers Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Bob Sandlin — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake O' the Pines — White Crappie fishing water
- Fayette County Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Grapevine Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Falcon International Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Amistad — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Whitney — White Crappie fishing water
- Possum Kingdom Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Belton — White Crappie fishing water
- Smith Mountain Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Buggs Island Lake (Kerr Reservoir) — White Crappie fishing water
- Claytor Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Anna — White Crappie fishing water
- Sandy River Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Flannagan Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Leesville Reservoir — White Crappie fishing water
- Philpott Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Staunton River — White Crappie fishing water
- Banks Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Stonewall Jackson Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Burnsville Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Winnebago — White Crappie fishing water
- Mississippi River (Wisconsin-Minnesota Boundary) — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Petenwell — White Crappie fishing water
- Castle Rock Lake — White Crappie fishing water
- Lake Koshkonong — White Crappie fishing water
White Crappie Regulations
Review current FishFinder regulation records before targeting White Crappie:
Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of water is best for catching White Crappie?
White Crappie (Pomoxis annularis) is typically found in lake water, river water, and reservoir water. Focus your effort where those conditions line up to improve your chances.
How big does White Crappie get?
Mature White 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 White Crappie in the USA and Canada?
White Crappie is reported across North American waters, including spots in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. 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 White Crappie?
A valid fishing license is required in most US states and Canadian provinces. Daily bag limits, minimum size limits, and open seasons for White Crappie vary by region, so review the regulations on this page and with your local wildlife authority before heading out.