Having never fished any of the Lakes north of Ross Barnett I don't have any input. I do have a question for all of you commenting on the subject of the current crappie populations in the Big 4 especially Granada. I remember years ago say 15 - 20 that the fish populations were insane, out of state harvesters were driving down in motorhomes with freezers installed, filling their freezers on a lake like Granada then fishing their way home only to sell the fish after arriving. I also remember reading about the Lake Management introducing a Hybrid (Man Altered not a Natural change) type of Crappie that was supposed to reduce the Crappie populations. Is it the opinion just that the Big 4 are over fished? The increase in the number of boaters that actually know how to catch Crappie, fish for them year around as we do, exploded in the last 15-20 years? Or does Management bear some of the blame for altering the Genes of enough Crappie to severely reduce the population by reducing the successful reproduction ability of the fish. It is not a very long lived fish to start with.