Having lived about 20 miles south of you all of my life I have discovered that any good fishing lake is either 3 hrs south or 3 hours north. Supposedly Heidecke lake has crappie I have never fished it for crappie but they allow bank fishing also. It is an old cooling lake that no longer has power plant on it so it has no structure rip rap around the entire lake. Plenty of creeks and rivers but not areas containing much crappie.