Nothing wrong with 9 Keepers That will eat.
I don't care how I catch em. I just like being on the lake and if I can come home with a meal or 3, then I feel like I was being a productive provider
I have a lake near me. I can leave my house and be on the water in 10 minutes if I wait in line at the ramp. Its a small lake with tremendous pressure, for all species, and the crappie are smaller. I finally started driving about an hour+ south to a large stumpy lake. Actually catching fi$h takes the $ting outta buying tackle and bait. I grew up at Lake of the Ozarks and not really catching much (boats on lifts, not trailers), and hitting the local lakes in the city. The hardest lesson for me was; Go where the fish are.
By the sounds of things though, if you can catch em on your lake you'll slay em anywhere else.