Little Lake, Big Slabs

Tracey Smith shows off a stringer of crappie caught at Tar River Reservoir. The largest fish weighed nearly two pounds.

The Tar River Reservoir has produced the last two state-record white crappie. Here’s how to mine its finny riches.

Lightning may not strike twice in the same place, but the old adage apparently doesn’t apply to crappie fishing.

Over a period of less than four weeks two springs ago, two Nashville anglers caught state-record white crappie at the relatively small Tar River Reservoir that supplies drinking water for the city of Rocky Mount, rather than one of the bigger lakes considered North Carolina’s best crappie fisheries.

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Mike Marsh is a freelance outdoor writer in Wilmington, N.C. His latest book, Fishing North Carolina, and other titles, are available at www.mikemarshoutdoors.com.

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