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Slab Quest: 5 Best Crappie Lakes in the South
Want to catch your best crappie ever? Try these top destinations to tangle with a monster.
Grenada Lake offers perfect growing conditions for producing large numbers of trophy fish with some even approaching 4 pounds. (Photo by Frank Sargeant)
February 01, 2021
By Jeff Sargeant
The South is without a doubt the best region in the country to find and catch the biggest crappie of your life. Long growing seasons and large impoundments with deep water and plenty of structure offer the perfect environs for growing giant slabs.
To form our list of the South’s top spots for the largest crappies, we called on fisheries biologists, top guides and pro crappie anglers. We also checked in with Darrell Van Vactor, head honcho at Crappie USA, who for more than 25 years has been sorting through this puzzle in an effort to schedule tournaments on ....

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