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 am generally of the belief that April is crappie time in southern Michigan, so when I met up with Jim Horn and Terry Smith for my first crappie sojourn of the spring well into May this year, I ...

But you’d be surprised about some of the things that’ll catch a whiskered giant, and more often than not recently, people have reported catching them on bass and crappie lures.

Cedar Creek — EXCELLENT. Water normal stain; 54-58 degrees; 3.35 feet low. Crappie are fair using minnows or jigs on select docks that have 6-8 feet of water, and brush piles in 5-20 feet of ...

No matter the depth, Yung's favorite approach to crappie still relies on casting a jig. "In deep water, you can jig vertically, but I try to stay off the fish and cast to them as much as I can.

Mike McBride eyes a hefty crappie he caught April 7 2023 at Lake Sequoyah in southeast Fayetteville. He prefers jigs over minnows when it comes to spring crappie fishing.

Jan. 10—Trout fishing has been active in the area. Crappies have also recently been hitting on hair jigs. While the bite for crappie has been hard the finesse presentation of hair jigs have ...

This week's news information packet from the Oklahoma Wildlife Department could not havebeen more timely, nor accurate. Their lead report says "The crappie spawn is on!," and as wenoted in ...