BigJ91,
I have a 3 to 4 acre farm pond I fish regularly and recently found the crappie about 15 to 20 feet from the bank in about 6 to 8 feet of water anywhere around some type of structure. I was using live minnows under a slip cork fishing about 3 to 4 foot deep. But I had to keep moving around. I would catch 4 or 5 here and about the same at the next spot and so on. Every now and then I would pick one up on a minnow colored tube bait but mostly I caught them on live bait. Just keep trying several different baits and rigs and you will find them they can't go anywhere.HA! I am waiting on spring. Hope this helps.
P.S. Check teh Georgia board, post titled Pond Crappie, and you will see some pictures of my last weeks catch.
Birddog,
I pray that I may live to fish until my dying day. And when it comes to my last cast I then most humbly pray. When in the Lord's great landing net and peacefully asleep. That in His mercy I be judged, BIG ENOUGH TO KEEP.