ROCHESTER — About 25 years ago, my boss took me crappie fishing on Mark Twain Lake in north-central Missouri. It's a massive reservoir, and back then it featured countless bays filled with flooded ...

A practical slideshow on the crappie fishing methods experienced anglers rely on when basic beginner tactics stop producing.

In the south Crappie are already pushed up shallow and other parts of the country aren’t far behind. That means it’s time to tie on a jig and head to your favorite brush pile. If you need a new rod, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crappie are hands down one of my favorite species to target. These abundant, aggressive fish also taste excellent right out of the ...

Brandon Fulgham (right) holds a crappie for a photographer while he and Brad Chappell (left) were long-line trolling on Oologah Lake on Monday. Long-lining is a technique that has become popular with ...

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 ...

DOWAGIAC – Jim Horn is a bass fisherman and a good one. That’s what he was doing when I met him, more than 20 years ago, and I fished with him a handful of times before I realized that was just part ...