Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

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When it comes to the ultimate setup for spring and summer panfish, it's hard to beat a nightcrawler, hook, split shot, and bobber. But, there are some serious advantages to fishing for bluegills, ...

BRIDGEPORT: GOOD. Water stained; 85 degrees; 0.31 high. Black bass are fair on diving crankbaits, jigs and Texas-rigged plastic worms in 12-18’ fishing rip-rap, gravel and timber. Crappie are good on ...

COLD POINT — One might refer to Tom Mundy as a professional tinkerer, and that would be just fine with him. After all, tinkering is likely a prerequisite for a self-made fishing lure manufacturer.

Visit your nearby bait-and-tackle store, or roam the aisles of Bass Pro Shop, and you’ll be amazed at the variety of jig heads filling the peg boards. Some plain, but most painted in every color ...

No piece of fishing tackle generates more heated debate than the choice of fishing lures. So with the caveat that there is no “best” fishing lure for each unique angler and body of water, here are ...

A light jig quivering in place can draw strikes from finicky winter bluegills. / Joe Shead Drop a worm in the water on a summer day and just try to not catch a bluegill. But in winter, sometimes those ...

Wouldn’t you know it. … The one and only shower on radar in the entire state was drifting across the very White River oxbow lake where we were fishing. While the brief visit from the rain dampened our ...