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.

Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "Many people go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." In my experience, this rings especially true for crappie fishing. Let's be ...

Angela Perea at Lake Fayetteville Marina recommends using plastic worms, jig and pigs or spinner baits for black bass.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Terry Peoples goes on a Dale Hollow fishing trip with Kentucky Guide Services Preston and Krystal Cleary and Southern Woods and Waters Contributor Nathan Vatter. Deep water ...

Live sonar helps crappie anglers catch fish, but the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission says it does not increase crappie harvest. Andy Yung, district fisheries biologist for the Game and Fish ...

Axel Angelow, an 8-year-old from Fairbault, Minnesota, caught a hefty black crappie while fishing with his dad, Ryan Angelow, on Cedar Lake in October 2024. The fish measured 18 inches and weighed 3 ...