During the early season before the spawn, crappie and panfish bites can be difficult to detect at times with traditional methods. They're much lighter than what you'll get during the spawn and in the ...

What is a Slip Bobber Rig? A slip bobber rig requires a few key components to tie everything together, but the star of the show - and what gives this rig its name - is a float (bobber) that has a hole ...

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.

My sonar unit registered a large school of crappies suspended over one of Lake Arthur’s submerged creek channels. The bulk of the fish appeared to be holding in 8 or 9 feet of water over the 13-foot ...

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 ...

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 ...

The way I see it, living on "crappie time" this year is much the same as "Living On Tulsa Time" if you recall the easy going philosophy (go with the flow) suggested by that old rock standard.

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 ...

NEW YORK — New York is home to both black crappie and white crappie, although black crappie are the predominant species throughout the state. Shortly after ice out crappie congregate in schools in ...