Species · Black Crappie · MT
Black Crappie in Montana
23 waters with black crappie, the lures working now, and recent stocking.
Montana waters with black crappie
- Tongue River Reservoirlive gauge
- Bailey Lake
- Big Lake
- Boxelder Lake
- Broadview Pond
- Cow Creek
- Crandall Reservoir
- Dry Fork
- Fresno Reservoir
- Gullwing Reservoir
- Lake Elmo
- Lisk Creek
- Little Warm Reservoir
- Marsh Lake
- McChesney Reservoir
- Nelsons Reservoir
- Petrolia Lake
- Priest Butte Lakes
- South Fork Dry Fork Marias River
- Spotted Eagle Lake
- Unnamed Lake
- Upper Carters Pond
- Whitetail Reservoir
What's working now
Current conditions on Tongue River Reservoir, a representative Montana water. Every lake fishes its own conditions — open one for its live read.
- Soft Plasticpearl
66°F, clarity n/a, post-spawn → slow-swum off cover pearl soft plastic
Why we say this: State agency crappie guide
Recent black crappie stocking in Montana
- Black Crappie · 9,929 · 1.1400000000000001Oct 20, 2025
- Black Crappie · 7,042 · 1.6200000000000001Oct 17, 2025
- Black Crappie · 2,000 · 1.9000000000000001Oct 16, 2025
- Black Crappie · 8,340 · 1.76Oct 16, 2025
- Black Crappie · 31 · 5Oct 15, 2025
- Black Crappie · 99 · 9May 21, 2025
- Black Crappie · 50,000 · 1.7Oct 10, 2024
- Black Crappie · 12,807 · 1.8Oct 9, 2024
- Black Crappie · 200 · 1.7Oct 8, 2024
- Black Crappie · 64,635 · 1.76Oct 8, 2024
- Black Crappie · 65,552 · 1.79Oct 8, 2024
- Black Crappie · 16,272 · 1.48Oct 7, 2024
- Black Crappie · 200 · 3.5Sep 25, 2006
- Black Crappie · 415 · 7May 25, 2005
- Black Crappie · 740 · 7May 25, 2005
- Black Crappie · 14 · 10.800000000000001Apr 19, 2004
- Black Crappie · 25Jul 30, 2003
- Black Crappie · 300 · 7.0899999999999999May 22, 2003
- Black Crappie · 900 · 7.0899999999999999May 22, 2003
- Black Crappie · 153 · 10.4May 2, 2003