I have enjoyed the good fortune of having known and shared a boat with some good crappie fishermen—Billy, Scott, Dean, Elizabeth, William, Capt. Dan … it’s a treasured list. But two of the best crappie anglers I’ve known—L.D. Davis and Mike Morris—lived in Missouri but did the bulk of their crappie fishing in Kentucky, on Kentucky Lake. So impressed were they with the fishing that both men secured property near the state’s namesake impoundment, the primary requirement of which was to provide a secure and close-to-the-water place to house their boats and fishing gear—and quick access to the fish.