Cane poles or telescoping fiberglass poles are the preferred equipment most West Alabama anglers use to catch crappie when summer arrives. Some try jigging poles that allow them to vary their depth ...

When you think of a spider bite the first thing that comes to mind isn’t necessarily good. After all, tall tales of black widows, brown recluses and creepy-crawly tarantulas all elicit the same ...

WINDSOR - If you love catching crappies (and eating them, too), now's the time to go. And Newnans Lake east of Gainesville is about as good a place as you can target. The fish are abundant, eager to ...

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 ...

Why dangle one minnow in front of a crappie's nose when you can jiggle a whole school of them? That's the idea behind the spider rig, a system that gets crappie to bite at Beaver Lake all year long. A ...

KINKAID LAKE – An unsuccessful walleye trip five years ago made Murphysboro’s Chuck Novara a better crappie fisherman. Novara and a friend were using a bottom-bouncing rig, tipped with night crawlers, ...

Catch crappie year-round by matching your tactics to the season. In spring, target shallow water when temps hit 50–65°F using light tackle, small jigs, and tubes under a float or fished vertically.

It's not generally hard to catch crappies--a bucket of minnows, a cane pole and some cool weather usually will allow rounding up enough to eat on any lake where crappies live. However, loading up an ...