 Let me tell you what. You want to learn how to fry a crappie? Hey, fillet that crappie to where there's no bones in it. I like to keep mine on ice and keep them cold when I'm cleaning them. And so when you clean that crappie, he's fresh, he's cold. I ice them down overnight, then I clean them the next day, and they're still cold. The key to good crappie is keeping that fillet cold and just have it damp, not wet.