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.

During this transitional time of year, it’s not uncommon for one day of lights-out action to be followed by a total skunking. Even traditional methods of predicting fish behavior like tracking fronts, ...

Enjoy the fall fishing as it’s a great time of the year. Dress warm and, if the fish are biting, you won’t notice the cold ...

Black bass are good on football jigs, green, red or black Texas rigged plastic worms, flukes, and crankbaits fishing points, timber, and channel ledges. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs working ...

Striped bass are going for live bait. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, recommends trolling for stripers between Prairie Creek and Rocky Branch parks. Shad or brood minnows are the best bait. Look for ...

Beaver Lake Striped bass fishing is good one day, poor the next, said fishing guide Jon Conklin. The best method is to troll for stripers with live bait such as brood minnows or shad. Other species ...

Crappie are fair on jigs and live bait. Channel and blue catfish are good on prepped stinkbait and cut bait in almost all levels. BELTON: FAIR. Water stained; 85-88 degrees; 0.93 feet low. Largemouth ...

Athens — GOOD. Water lightly stained; 88 degrees; 0.16 feet high. Largemouth bass are good on jigs, crankbaits and Carolina rigged plastic worms working the docks, humps and road beds with some top ...