And please do fish the smaller lakes and take a limit of those stunted crappie. I've been encouraging anglers at Watkins Mill State Park Lake to do that for 20 years! It's slowly improving but continued high harvest is needed. What constitutes a small lake? Crappie do best in lakes over 1000 acres. There are smaller lakes that do well, but the vast majority of lakes under 1000 acres have stunted populations. If go to a lake and see a daily limit of 30 with no length limit, the manager is trying to increase harvest.