Here's my take on the whole mercury/crappie thing. I used to hunt Felsenthal Wildlife Refuge in south Arkansas years ago. To the best of my knowledge it was here that the whole Mercury thing got started in Arkansas.

I mean they plastered signs at every oxbow and launch area on the surrounding waterways. And geuss what fish they had a picture of on the signs? Yea a crappie!!

Well a few years later after they all learned more about which fish were more affected by the Mercury they lifted the restriction completely off the Crappie!

Every since then I don't worry about the crappie! I may be a little spoiled living on one of the best crappie lakes in Arkansas but I don't eat Bass AKA(Trash-fish) anyway!! I apologize to those of you who do enjoy bass fishing also.

Also my wife and I both have to go to various doctors and specialists for different and unrelated illnesses and thru all the various tests thru the years the question of Mercury poisioning has never came up.

By the way, like Nimrod said, when we are really catching 'em we'll usually eat 2 to 3 crappie dinners a week.