The franklin city lake that you mentioned does have some crappie in it. There are not many of much size however. This is getting better and I thinbk that it has a lot to do with them stocking muskie in it. The muskies feed on the small crappie and bluegill that were straining the food base. As you have already noticed there is a lot of cover in the creek. (by the way that is what we call it, "the creek.")

It gets a fair amount of pressure from people fishing for bass, but I don't think that many people fish just for crappie in it the way that I do. As the weather continues to warm the fish will move farther up the creek where it changes from being like a lake to being more like a river. It is a great little piece of water to have because it si so close and convenient to go and wet a line on an afternoon and not have to fool with driving to barren or malone and waste time that you could be fishing. With that being said however you will catch more and bigger fish at either of those two places than you will at the creek.