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.

We are dangerously close to Crappie spawning season in Kentucky. Late March and April is a celebrated time of year for anglers across the Commonwealth because Crappie fishing during the spawn is ...

Monster largemouths are hard to come by, which is what makes catching them such a thrilling experience. For most anglers, reeling in a lunker over 13 pounds is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Doing ...

CLARENDON — On Tuesday morning, Jimmy Nosler's tackle box was full of shiny new crappie hooks. By Tuesday evening they were all gone, thanks to me snagging every sunken treetop we'd fished in the ...

Almost every veteran crappie catcher can recount times when he was catching fish just as fast as he could toss out a yellow jig, when suddenly, for no apparent reason, the fishing went bust. Different ...

My uncle Guy McClintock of Cherry Valley spent much of his life fishing for crappie. His fishing vessel was a 10-foot johnboat hand-crafted from cypress. His poles were hand-cut canes. Not ...

Beaver Lake: Black bass and crappie are biting as another fishing year begins. Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers recommends trying for bass with jerk baits, crawdad-colored crank baits or ...