Jerk baits are a great cold-water choice for getting black bass to bite. Walleye, striped bass and sometimes crappie will ...

Crappie are hands down one of my favorite species to target. These abundant, aggressive fish also taste excellent right out of the fryer. Whether you are bobber fishing in the spring, or ice fishing ...

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 ...

I knew the odds would be just a little, if not a whole lot, on my side as I turned the alarm off at 5 a.m. last week. A weather change had come, and the morning low was 58 degrees, a far cry from the ...

One Mississippi town drops a 7-foot metal fish, but not the ball, at annual New Year's Eve party. See other weird, wonderful ...

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.

Plastics on the drop-shot on a ‘dead-stick’ presentation are also effective, and there are plenty of fish to be caught ...

COLUMBUS– With a free weekend of fishing across the state, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife has recently released a listing of places in Central Ohio that are ...

After a prize bass? Or are crappies or muskies more to your taste? Alum Creek Lake has long been known as a largemouth bass destination, but it has recently gained a reputation for great smallmouth ...

April is an outdoorsman's paradise in Oklahoma. Turkey hunting begins, the morel mushrooms are popping up from the ground, and the fish are biting. In April, crappie move into the shallow water along ...