Crappie are unique. You either like them or you do not. I generally keep only two crappie as my wife likes them and I do not. Now give me some deep fried Gills and I will eat a dozen of them.

Each species of fish has a different meat texture and taste. Crappie are not firm and do not have much texture and are a more mushy soft meat regardless of how you cook them.

Shooting docks to catch them, that is the fun. Or locating them suspended over a brush pile, marking it and catching a few, that is the fun. Eating them not so much, please give me a nice fat juicy rib eye. Lol!