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 Alabama Rig has been a very effective and controversial device in the bass fishing world since it's introduction by Andy Doss and Mann's Bait Company in early 2011. The Alabama Rig is not a lure ...

Crappie are biting fair, reports Jon Conklin, fishing guide. Anglers report catching lots of small crappie with minnows or jigs around brush. Crappie must be 10 inches or longer to keep at Beaver Lake ...

Fishing guide Ben Matsubu says crappie fishing has been good when the wind allows. Best bite coming in 10 to 15 feet in the ...

OBERLIN, Ohio -- See the dogwoods in bloom? Hear the turkeys gobbling? That's a spring double header, and the signal it's time to go crappie fishing. Jim Chamberlin of Sheffield Lake, a steelhead ...