Thanks for the welcome and I do hope to learn a whole lot! I know for a fact that there are some really nice crappie in Smith Lake but I rarely have seen them. I've been told about people catching 30-40 on an Easter Sunday. Once I was waaayyyy up a feeder creek when I met a guy who gave me 6 HUGE crappie. Yet, about all I ever catch is regular ol' large mouth and spotted bass. It gets kind of boring after 20-30 years of hardly catching anything else except bream and an ocassional catfish. I tried going below the dam to catch the stocked rainbow trout but they're so small that they're not worth filleting. I've got to learn how to catch and how to hunt down crappie. I've heard stories but know that if you know what you're doing you can catch fish any day of the year in this lake yet it is a very difficult lake to fish.