Species · Black Crappie · MI
Black Crappie in Michigan
88 waters with black crappie, the lures working now, and recent stocking.
Michigan waters with black crappie
- Arnold Lake
- Badger Lake
- Bankson Lake
- Barnes Lake
- Barron Lake
- Battjes Lake
- Bennett Lake
- Bertha Lake
- Big Clinton Lake
- Big Cranberry Lake
- Big Lake
- Black Creek
- Blue Lake
- Boney Falls Basin
- Brower Lake
- Bucks Pond
- Budd Lake
- Caulkins Lake
- Cedar Lake
- Cedar Lake
- Chain Lakes
- Crystal Lake
- Cub Lake
- Dana Lake
- Deer Lake
- Dewey Lake
- Eagle Lake
- East Branch Little Muskegon River
- Eight Point Lake
- First Lake
- Fish Lake
- Ford Lake
- Fremont Lake
- Garnet Lake
- Helen Lake
- Hemmingway Lake
- Hermansville Lake
- Huyck Lake
- Island Lake
- Island Lake
- Jewell Lake
- Jordan Lake
- Jose Lake
- Kimble Lake
- Lacey Lake
- Lake Columbia
- Lake Independence
- Lake James
- Lake Le Ann
- Lake Metamora
- Lake Muskoday
- Lake of the Hills
- Lake Templene
- Lake Thirteen
- Little Bear Lake
- Little Long Lake
- Little Pleasant Lake
- Little Wolf Lake
- Lobdell Lake
- Long Lake
- Long Lake
- Lorden Lake
- Lost Lake
- Maxfield Lake
- Middle Straits Lake
- Newburgh Lake
- Ogemaw Lake
- Perch Lake
- Pontiac Lake
- Pratt Lake
- Rainy Lake
- Rock Lake
- Sanderson Lake
- Sandy Bottom Lake
- Sessions Lake
- Shay Lake
- Tea Lake
- Tipsico Lake
- Tittabawassee River
- Toms Lake
- Townline Lake
- Tyrone Lake
- Victoria Reservoir
- Walker Lake
- West Londo Lake
- Wildfowl Lake
- Wolf Lake
- Wolverine Lake
What's working now
Current conditions on Arnold Lake, a representative Michigan water. Every lake fishes its own conditions — open one for its live read.
No exact temperature rule — widened by temperature.
- Drop Shottranslucent
temp n/a, clarity n/a, summer → finesse over brushpiles translucent drop shot
Why we say this: In-Fisherman summer crappie
Recent black crappie stocking in Michigan
- Black Crappie · 1,500 · 12.7Nov 25, 2025
- Black Crappie · 150 · 12.7Nov 5, 2025
- Black Crappie · 150 · 12.7Nov 4, 2025
- Black Crappie · 348 · 12.7Nov 1, 2025
- Black Crappie · 4,500 · 10.16Oct 9, 2025
- Black Crappie · 1,000 · 15.24May 10, 2025
- Black Crappie · 200 · 12.7Nov 26, 2024
- Black Crappie · 1,000 · 12.7Nov 26, 2024
- Black Crappie · 393 · 12.7Nov 23, 2024
- Black Crappie · 1,500 · 12.7Nov 21, 2024
- Black Crappie · 238 · 11.43Nov 19, 2024
- Black Crappie · 200 · 7.62Nov 19, 2024
- Black Crappie · 100 · 12.7Nov 15, 2024
- Black Crappie · 100 · 12.7Nov 15, 2024
- Black Crappie · 1,000 · 12.7Nov 1, 2024
- Black Crappie · 680 · 12.7Oct 30, 2024
- Black Crappie · 750 · 12.7Oct 31, 2023
- Black Crappie · 150 · 12.7Jun 7, 2023
- Black Crappie · 1,000 · 11.43May 6, 2023
- Black Crappie · 100 · 8.89Nov 29, 2022