we are having that problem but don't let anyone fool you we have plenty of home folks that are raping out supply of crappies - of course for years due to I guess ignorance ( should have known better ) people hauled all the fish they could carry back top there freezers the old bass master films of the early tournaments I have seen guys talk about how sick it makes them when they see what they use to do to all those bass they caught and did not even try to save them for release - I have seen films of entire jon boats full of bass that was killed (they ate most of them but it was still alot of fish wasted)- not only crappie but saltwalter fish such as red fish(in NC we call puppy drum or spot tails) we caught by the hundreds and now we have had to regulate them to a slot size and just 1 per day - and now they are coming back in good numbers - our crappie on High Rock was really hurt by our drought a few years ago - but now that we have a 20 fish limit on 8" fish and above the size of the fish is really starting to get bigger - Jordan Lake has been a hot spot for traveling crappie fishermen for years - and there was no creel limit ever until 2 years ago and the went to the 20 fish limit over 10" - and the reports from Jordan are getting better and better - our bank fishermen are guilty of taking to many and too small fish when the spawn is on - hopefully with more education and enforcement the supply will continue to increaseOriginally Posted by Roberta