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, ...

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 ...

Largemouth bass are good working crankbaits, flipping jigs, buzz baits, wacky rigs and drop shots near creek channels and crossings, points and trees. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs near brush ...

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

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 ...

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

ALAN HENRY: Water clear on the main lake, stained toward the river; 60 degrees; 1.75' low. Black bass are good on shakyheads with trick worms, 7" Power Worms, swim jigs, medium and deep diving ...

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 ...