The White Crappie (Pomoxis annularis) is commonly found in ponds, lakes or impoundments, and in sluggish pools of moderate to large sized streams. The White Crappie is quite tolerant to the siltation that often inhabits areas where aquatic vegetation grows on submerged brush, logs, stumps, etc.
The white crappie can be found from Nebraska and from Big Stone Lake, Minnesota, through western and southeastern Wisconsin and the southern two-thirds of the lower peninsula of Michigan to southern Lake Huron and the Lake Erie basin in Ontario and the northern part of the Lake Ontario drainage. It is also found south through the Mississippi Valley to Texas and southern Alabama, north along the Atlantic slope to North Carolina.