Thread: Crappie relating to structure - what to look for?

Originally Posted by titanxt

I know this varies quite a bit during the year, but what kind of depths are we talking about? Is there a depth that is too deep. What I mean is, do crappie care that the water is 30-feet deep when they might be hanging out at 12 feet? I ask this to maybe eliminate some of the deep channels. Without noticeable structure, I have had a hard time in locating where crappie hangout in a lot of the larger lakes in Indiana.

Depents on if there is a thermocline or current. In the hot summer months with no current to speak of there won't be many sport fish below the thermocline. Now in the cold winter months the fish can be down at the bottom of the lake.


If there is a current in the lake there might be dissolved oxygen down near the lake bottom and the fish can still be deep.

Fish like cover and hang around drop offs, points river bends in a river channel and were there is brush piles or submerged trees.

Things change with the type of lake and the area of the lake that you are fishing along with the time of year.