JP Coleman has nice cabins and Tennessee State Park has nice cabins....they are both on the water...JP Coleman is in mississippi waters smack dab in the middle of the lake....short run to bear creek and also a short run to yellow creek from JP....JP coleman is also located inside of indian creek which also offers some nice fishing. TN state park is up closer to the dam and will have much easier access to gas stations, nice restraunts, and all that good stuff....let me know if i can help. As far as crappie fishing, im not much help as I just started crappie fishing this spring but have fished pickwick a lot and caught everything at pickwick now from crappie, to largemouth, to smallmouth, to drum, to flathead, to blue cats, to stripes....