To all, after researching and talking to a few DNR people in the Cadillac and Traverse City area, there are a few decent pond and lakes with crappie in them around Traverse. Cedar lake, Lake cadillac, Spider and Arbutus, and Mitchell (Cadillac expanded), Lake Missaukee, and Lake Manistee near Kalkaska and then the most obvious in Northern Michigan, Houghton Lake. This is just a bit of info for any speck fisherman around the area.