Best advise I can give you is look for other boats, and fish around them. Also, I have caught them on cranks down here, but our black crappie seem to prefer it when I pull double jigs. I think they like smaller baits, just my opinion though. Additionally, as of late the spider riggers with minners have been out fishing me, whereas in prior years, I would out do most of them long lining double jigs. Good luck, and please report back.