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 ...

I don't care what you are fishing for, whether bluegills or catfish: If slip bobbers are not incorporated into your techniques, you are not as effective at catching as you should be. Bobbers are ...

Bobbers: Paired with small jigs (or hooks), split shots, and live bait, bobber rigs work year around, although I find them to work best during spring. Jigs: Lead, glass, and tungsten jigs all have a ...

Fishermen often over-analyze a situation, make techniques and approaches too complex. We end up outsmarting ourselves. We can cite a million reasons, from the weather to the calendar, for why fish ...

Cole & Jay land giant fall slabs in the swamp with jigs and bobbers. The clearest sign that Trump is rattled by the Epstein ...

Legendary north woods guide Greg Bohn is known as Mr. Slip Bobber for a good reason -- he's spent the past 30 years in northern Wisconsin perfecting the tactic that is one of the most used and least ...

Crappie fishing is currently best near areas still having green weeds by good lake structure. Anglers should use a few ...

The first time I remember using a small jigging spoon for panfish was a dozen years ago. Local guide Josh Hagemeister and I were fishing a very deep hole on Clearwater Lake for crappies. The slim ...

George Toalson just smiled as I told him that he was pretty darned good at the crappie-catching game. He had just told me exactly where to cast and I’d caught four fish in a row. “Toss it right off ...

It was years ago during a walleye adventure on Red Lake that I got educated. The mid-winter bite was slow so I put a camera down to help entertain myself. If nothing much was biting, at least I could ...

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 ...

If you polled all ice anglers about their favorite presentations, two answers would stand out from the rest: jigs and spoons. Every year the legion of hardy anglers that heads out to the ice have ...