How far to crappie travel
I have read lots about crappie habits, colors they might like, depth, speed of fishing, and how water color and weather figure into the mix. What I don't see, and haven't heard, is the distance they'll travel. While I understand that they can't go as far in a farm pond or small lake, but on a lake the size of say Mark Twain (close to me), has a study been done on how far fish will go. Are there any theories about what they're looking for? If they're willing to travel quite a ways in search of what they're looking for, will they go back, or stay where they are. I ask because we don't seem to be catching the numbers this year that we did last year, but the MDC Website indicated that numbers on Mark Twain weren't going to be a problem, but size might this year. We've really seen that numbers were a problem, and size hasn't
