What is the best structure to fish around to catch crappie?

It depends on what time of year it is. In spring, look for them along shallow flats with nearby cover. In Post -Spawn, they will most likely be arowhere from 10-15′ deep along channel ledges, sunken timber, and inlets. They will be moving to deeper water for summer. In summertime, crappie are not particularly structure oriented, and often suspend in open water without regard to structure. They are looking for a particular water temperture and PH. Whatever depth you find them at, they will be at that depth over the entire lake, as a rule. The thermocline is a good place to start looking. In the fall, crappie will once again become structure oriented, and will congregate around standing and sunken timber in 10-20′ of water, along riverbeds, channels, rock piles and bridges. They will be agressiviely feeding, so looking for schools of minnows can often lead you to large packs of marauding crappie. As winter sets in, the crappie will slow down on their feeding, and moving. They will hang around structure in 15-20′ water, around channels, bottom features and timber. They will not move very much at all, sideways or up-and-down to take a bait. For this time of year, smaller is better, and it must be presented almost right in front of the crappies nose. As the water begins to warm back up and re-start the cycle, crappie will move back into 10-15′ of water along creekbeds, channels, bays, coves and inlets, following lines of structure, in search of spawning areas. Happy Fishing!