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.

Hair protects your skin and can renew itself without scarring. A hair has a follicle below the skin, made of live cells, and a shaft above the skin made of dead cells. Hair grows through three phases: ...