How To Locate Crappie

One of the most-frequently-asked questions of guides and professional crappie fishermen at this time of the year is, "How do you find crappie on a new lake?"

Although there are many answers, we have selected the best answers from John E. Phillips' new Kindle Book, "Crappie: How to Catch Them Spring and Summer," which is available at Amazon.com

Pro crappie angler Stokes McClellan of Huntersville, N.C., travels the nation fishing crappie tournaments and explains how he does it.

"First, my son Adam and I buy a topographical map of the lake,” he said. “From the topo map, we can see where the creek channels and the drop-offs are...