If you consider crappie fishing just a springtime affair, then you don’t know Keith Wray. Last January, the Kerr Lake angler caught 1,800 crappie.

Kerr Lake, which sprawls along the Virginia-North Carolina border, is Virginia’s best producer of citation-size crappie. Last year it accounted for 66 citations, twice its nearest rival.

Fishing Kerr Lake for crappie in July, and a catfish spinach recipe.