Targeting fall crappies can be surprisingly fun and effective. That's because they school up and get aggressive. Here's how ...

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.

The first fish I ever caught on an artificial lure was a crappie. It hit a Hildebrandt black and yellow spinner bait cast from a green metal Johnson Century reel mounted on a solid fiberglass rod with ...

FAIR. Water stained; 80 degrees; 0.84 feet above pool. Quality sized bass are good in 2-5 feet of water with soft plastics.

Black bass are scattered at all depths and at all areas of the lake. That can make for tough fishing, said Reece Jones at ...

Six rods are better than one when it comes to catching summertime crappie at Beaver Lake. Mitch Glenn of Garfield sometimes sets out even more fishing rods for trolling crank baits that lure crappie ...