Black Crappie fishing in Southern Utah
12 waters in the DWR Southern region hold black crappie — 12 with live data, 4 rated Prime 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 →
Fishing best right now
All 12 black crappie waters in southern Utah
| Water | Right now | Flow / level | Water temp | Stocked | Species |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Flat Reservoir | Good | 48% full | — | stocked 5d ago | brook trout, brown trout, channel catfish, … |
| Parowan Pond | Good | — | stocked 3w ago | channel catfish, black crappie, rainbow trout | |
| Sand Hollow ReservoirBlue Ribbon | Good | 73% full | — | — | largemouth bass, bluegill, black crappie |
| Wide Hollow Reservoir | Good | — | stocked 3w ago | black crappie, white crappie, rainbow trout, … | |
| Leigh Hill Reservoir | Fair | — | stocked 3w ago | channel catfish, black crappie, tiger trout (brown × brook hybrid), … | |
| Newcastle Reservoir | Fair | — | stocked 4w ago | brown trout, black crappie, rainbow trout, … | |
| Quail Creek Reservoir | Fair | 57% full | — | stocked 8mo ago | largemouth bass, rainbow trout, black crappie, … |
| Redmond Lake | Fair | — | stocked 13mo ago | largemouth bass, channel catfish, black crappie, … | |
| Willow Spring Pond | Fair | — | stocked 4w ago | channel catfish, black crappie, rainbow trout, … | |
| Piute Reservoir | Tough | 4% full | — | stocked 5mo ago | smallmouth bass, white bass, channel catfish, … |
| Baker Reservoir | Warning | — | stocked 3w ago | largemouth bass, brown trout, black crappie, … | |
| Gunlock Reservoir | Warning | 37% full | — | — | largemouth bass, bluegill, black crappie, … |