When spring is on the horizon, anglers look forward to spawning time more than any fishing season of the year. As the water slowly warms, walleye, white bass, crappie and other favorites start moving ...

Add Outdoor Life (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Every crappie angler ...

Fishing is an act of optimism. Sometimes — especially this time of year — that optimism overrides logic. Antsy after the doldrums of winter, we anglers can get a little ahead of ourselves. No matter ...

My friend Lewis and I were up to our waists in water. It was March, and the temperature outside was still a little cool. So it didn’t take long for the 58-degree water in the oxbow lake we were ...

A single dogwood stands on what passes for a bit of sandy high ground in the hardwood flat that is adjacent to an oxbow reachable by boat through a barely wide-enough channel connecting the slough to ...

Crappie are famously fickle, shifting from shoreline brush to deep timber overnight, yet anglers who understand their patterns can turn that unpredictability into steady action. If you learn how ...

In a normal year the crappie spawn has peaked by mid-April, and toward May the shoreline fishing frenzy — when the light-fighting but tasty panfish have moved into shallow water to spawn — is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every crappie angler loves the spring. All across the country crappies go through their spawn-season progression at various times ...