awesome...i am so appreciative of the info...i've been fishing beaver dam for about 15 years....mainly catfish, trout, and bass....never even considered crappie....now...i must stick up for beaver dam and say that the catfishing in the summer and the trout fishing in the fall/spring....top notch....maybe 10 times out of 250 trips there have i ever NOT caught anything...as far as catfishing is concerned....i've caught a few trophy's...bas...whew!! big ol bass here and there...but i am a newbie when it comes to crappie...went to yaeger with a buddy n caught 125....only kept 50 though...all over 9" biggest was 13 1/2"...so i thought i'd try one of my favorite parks for crappie...haven't been successful the 2 times i went for crappie so far...but...hey...it ain't called catchin'....it's called fishin'!!!