Top 50 Lakes in the Country

**Redy2Fish** · 09-30-2012, 07:02 AM

This list was put out by "Crappie Nation" (Top 50 | CrappieNation.net ) and is being discussed in the Arkansas Forum, just wondered what you guys may think about the list?

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/arkan...t-ranking.html

**Corker** · 09-30-2012, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by Redy2Fish

what you guys may think about the list?

I think I'm fishing in the wrong state.

**Redy2Fish** · 09-30-2012, 09:51 AM

I think I'm fishing in the wrong state.

Two obvious omissions were Buggs Island and Roosevelt Lake , AZ. But, I don't know what their measurement criteria were, so, I'll not judge their list. I know a couple of those Arkansas and Mississippi waters personally, or should I say "knew" them personally, since that was a long time ago.

**speKzilla** · 09-30-2012, 11:21 AM

Fish are where you find them. Size is relative to whats available in a given body of water. The trick is to find the biggest you can(not easy). For example use the Suffolk Lakes, on average Speight's Run has smaller fish than Cohoon. What makes it fun is to do the best with what's there. You can travel far and wide (I have),but time spent fishing is better than time spent traveling. But,thats just the way I see it and I speak only for myself. If you decide the trip is worth it go forth and enjoy.

**crappiefarmer** · 09-30-2012, 11:48 AM

Well I may not catch 175 crappie when I go but when I read the articles on how many were caught and see that out of 175, 25 were keepers and the rest were dinks, then that makes my local waters just as good. I may not catch but 20 or 25, but other than a couple throwbacks, they are all keepers. Seems like catching 100 6" crappie would get old after a while.CF

**Corker** · 09-30-2012, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by speKzilla

time spent fishing is better than time spent traveling.

As a general rule, this is right on the money. Sometimes, however, you just need to see some new or different water & a longer trip is in order!

**Corker** · 09-30-2012, 11:57 AM

The keeper/dink ratio is a good way to rate and compare various bodies of water--and individual trips to the same fishery, too.

**Barnacle Bill** · 09-30-2012, 11:59 AM

I looked at that list and couldn't help but wonder how they came up with it. If you fished a place that had fantastic crappie in it would you tell everyone, let alone post it on the internet?

**crappiefarmer** · 09-30-2012, 12:56 PM

These best lake polls are always skewed to the midwest. I know there are some dynamite fisheries out there but there are some in other regions of the country too. It is like the magazines. they are just going to talk about states north to south along the mississippi river. There was some dude on the main board posting regularly from California posting pictures of crappie that would smoke most of the other lakes named on the list on a regular basis. That place had no mention. the only place that I noticed along the east coast was SanTee Cooper and Clarks Hill Georgia. We know Buggs would out rank some of the lakes on that list. This just hit a nerve again with me and am giving My opinion.

And this is just like all the tournament trails favor lakes well away from the east coast. This Eliminates many more would be competitors from areas closer to the coast that have crappie in their area. How can they say that so an so is the champion of crappie fishing when there were many more that would have participated in a tournament trail but would not drive for 2 days one way to participate. crappiemasters and other crappie tournament trails need to do like BASS did years ago. Open up different regions of the country until people in all areas of the country can participate.

Not trying to get off topic but this is all related by the thinking in the crappie media and directors of tournaments. Most all info and promotion is skewed to the midwest.CF

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