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Black Crappie fishing in Southern Utah
12 waters in the DWR Southern region hold black crappie — 11 with live data, 0 fishing Hot or Good right now.
Quick tactics for black crappie
Structure-schooling panfish with paper mouths and a taste for minnows. Find one crappie and you've found fifty — they stack on submerged brush, weed edges, and marina slips at Willard, Pineview, and Quail Creek.
Small minnows and zooplankton; they strike small jigs as both.
- 1/16-oz marabou or tube jigs under a slip bobber
- Slow vertical jigging over brush piles
- Small minnows on light wire hooks (paper mouths — no hard hooksets)
- Glow jigs after dark under a crappie light
Full seasonal guide to black crappie →
All 12 black crappie waters in southern Utah
| Water | Right now | Flow | Water temp | Stocked | Species |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baker Reservoir | Fair | — | — | 10mo ago | largemouth bass, brown trout, black crappie, … |
| Gunlock Reservoir | Fair | — | — | — | largemouth bass, bluegill, black crappie, … |
| Parowan Pond | Fair | — | — | 3mo ago | channel catfish, black crappie, rainbow trout |
| Piute Reservoir | Fair | — | — | 3mo ago | smallmouth bass, white bass, channel catfish, … |
| Quail Creek Reservoir | Fair | — | — | 6mo ago | largemouth bass, rainbow trout, black crappie, … |
| Redmond Lake | Fair | — | — | 12mo ago | largemouth bass, channel catfish, black crappie, … |
| Sand Hollow ReservoirBlue Ribbon | Fair | — | — | — | largemouth bass, bluegill, black crappie |
| Wide Hollow Reservoir | Fair | — | — | 10mo ago | black crappie, white crappie, rainbow trout, … |
| Jackson Flat Reservoir | Fair | — | — | 5mo ago | brook trout, brown trout, channel catfish, … |
| Willow Spring Pond | Fair | — | — | 3mo ago | channel catfish, black crappie, rainbow trout, … |
| Newcastle Reservoir | Tough | — | — | 11mo ago | brown trout, black crappie, rainbow trout, … |
| Leigh Hill Reservoir | — | — | 6mo ago | channel catfish, black crappie, tiger trout (brown × brook hybrid), … |