Hey y'all,
First of all I want to thank everybody here for sharing their wisdom and techniques. I am only 22 and have a helluva lot to learn about crappie fishing, and I'm grateful to have a resource like this forum. I am a senior at UA this year, and I don't own my own boat, so I don't get to fish as much as I would like. My folks live in irondale, near birmingham, and I fish the Cahaba there a lot (never caught a crappie in the cahaba further north than centreville though).

I go to Lake Purdy occasionally and rent a jon boat to fish, and I think I'm going to go back out there in about a week. Do any of the fisherman on here have experience fishing lake Purdy?

I have a friend who I fish with on lay lake and logan martin out of his jonboat sometimes as well. What would be the best way to try and catch crappie on those lakes after christmas?

On a side note, the lake purdy store is offering $100 for the biggest chain pickerel of december. Do any of y'all have experience with or stories about catching pickerel in winter?

Thanks for any and all help
Aaron