Learn when crappie spawn, where to find them, and the best lures to use. Here's what you need to know to catch spring crappie.

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.

Before I made my first cast, I knew what I was up against. It was May 26, and the sun was hot on my neck at 10 a.m. As I walked down the shoreline of my favorite Rochester-area pond, I hoped to find ...

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Anglers have to decide not just where to fish and what to fish for, but also how to fish for it. For all-day comfort on big water, you've got to go with a boat. For speed and ease, you just can't beat ...

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 ...

There are few moments more frustrating — and painful — than attempting to bushwhack to that perfect fishing spot at a mountain lake. I’ve been scraped and stabbed by countless branches, had a giant ...