Now that the long, cold winter is finally over and waters are starting to warm and take on a less desolate look, it’s time to get in some of the first good catches of crappies. With every passing year ...

Anglers who've been fishing most of their lives sometimes learn a lesson. Mike McBride hadn't made more than four casts when a crappie the size of a dinner plate nailed his small jig. His first fish ...

The minnows were jumping like tiny shooting stars. You saw them, but just barely. Across the greater part of the bay, these paper-clip size prey were fleeing from ...

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 ...

Small jigs, shaky heads and Ned rigs are effective on gravel points close to the old bank line. A few fish can be caught in the flooded bushes and timber by flipping a tube or jig. Crappie are moving ...

When it was time to teach my two grandsons, Ethan and Shane Navarre, about the joys of freshwater fishing, I took them to the Farm Museum pond, tied a float and jig to their lines and they soon ...

Almost every veteran crappie catcher can recount times when he was catching fish just as fast as he could toss out a yellow jig, when suddenly, for no apparent reason, the fishing went bust. Different ...

CATAWBA ISLAND, Ohio - No matter how you say it, crappie fishing is an exceptional spring fling. Around northern Ohio, the white and black crappie are called "crop-pea." Mosey on down to southern Ohio ...

Ask anglers to list essential fishing equipment and the answer will likely be a long list of necessities. In truth, you don’t need much to catch fish. Noodling is the sport of fishing by hand. And ...

BEAVER LAKE - Fishing for crappie when gusty winds were giving the War Eagle arm of Beaver Lake a good whipping last week was the culmination of sheer serendipity. As an example of accidental good ...