Quote Originally Posted by rico View Post
Carr Lake is an interesting one. It is about 8 miles due west of me, but dont fish it much at all and when I do it is through the ice. Cant speak of the crappie there. But I can tell you that it would be a perfect place for an outing. With all the lakes in the area, it gets overlooked quite a bit. Has good parking and is pretty secluded. It sits just south of Warsaw.
I used to fish it a bunch, but haven't been there in a long time. We used to catch some nice black crappie there though. Last time I fished it was for bass, but dad and I used to go there for panfish fairly often.

Is one lake where you aren't going to have to worry about the ramp being too crowded for sure.

Manitou would be another lake that would be a good choice for crappie fishing, and with two ramps there is usually parking unless there is more than one tournament going on. Crappie fishing there can be hit or miss, but I caught some last year bass fishing.

I mostly just fish for crappie at missy and salamonie, so I'm not much help on the natural lakes. I know some of the lakes I'd try parking would be the issue.