I work at grove marina and I fish the dock a lot and have caught some very nice crappie. I haven't really tried to crappie fish out on the lake very much. But I would go over by the dan and fish between it and the visitors center there is two docks and there is pine trees and sycamores all over the bottom or I would go up past the second shoals in the river and fish on the left. I hope this spring I will be able to crappie fish the lake alot I think Laurel could be a prime place for crappie but no one fish's for them and the ones that do don;t spread the word.