Truthfully I found the crappie by accident. I was throwing my shad net along the top of a ledge for catfish bait and was getting some nice crappie along with the shad in the net. I knew if I was getting them in the net there had to be a lot of them so I started looking for schools of shad with fish under them. Since shad always move I just tried to stay over them with my trolling motor. Not all shad schools had crappie with them. Caught them in areas that always produced fish in the past. Do more watching the locator than fishing.