What's your go to summer method for catching crappie on large resevoirs?

[Foxy Jig]

Long-line trolling?
Night fishing?
Crank-baiting?
Docks?
Sitting on brush?
Something else?

really interested in your techniques for those summer-time crappie

thanks all and stay safe on the water this weekend

[thaDudeAbides]

Brush piles and dock shooting!

[TreednNC]

pitching to brush

[Grainraiser]

I fish bridge pilings in the summer. Pilings always hold fish in the summer and you can use the overhead cover as shade from the heat. Fish love shade in the summer.

[Spoonminnow]

Question: are there mostly deep water and fast drops? Are there shallow flats with vegetation? Once the spawn is done, crappie and other fish move out to deeper water. Depending on the questions asked, deeper water may be 6' or less or 10'. Sonar helps me locate any fish in the area.

Fish gotta eat and baitfish are a clue to where predators are located. As usual, search baits are many from small diving crankbaits to small soft plastics rigged on light jig heads. The latter is more versatile in that you work areas somewhat slower.

Once fish are caught, anchor and cast, cast, cast all over the area and any areas like it in the lake. Pattern fishing keeps me connected to where fish are likely to be. Your lure is the ultimate search device that increases the odds of finding a pattern, if only for the day.

Hope this helps.

[DockShootinJack]

Shooting docks, Night Stalking with lights, minnows at night

[Ketchn]

Shade .....timber....brush piles....

[Foxy Jig]

great info guys keep it coming!

[keeferfish]

Getting Skunked

[CrappiePappy]

When I went : (depending on the lake I went to)

Shaded banks with wood cover, early to mid morning - then early afternoon (3pm-ish) back to banks just starting to become shaded. Middle of the day I'd likely be fishing deep wood cover, or fishing for another species.

Pushing jigs over flats or channel edges (dodging brushpiles as much as possible) ... Pushing cranks in the same places (just never got to doing that as much as with jigs).

Pretty much all the methods/techniques you mention will work, it's just a matter of "how" you prefer to fish. I'd also add Spider Rigging to that selection, if that's your forte.