Side imaging fish finders have found their way into every tournament angler’s boat. The ability to scan for structure, weed edges, and fish helps anglers stay dialed. Side imaging works similarly to ...

If you’re struggling to catch fish, fish finders can feel like a magic bullet ready to solve your problem and fill your creel. While they won’t make up for poor timing or technique, they can be a ...

Crappie are one of the most popular gamefish in the U.S.—and for good reason. They’re fun to catch for anglers of any skill level, they put up a good fight, and they can grow to impressive sizes. If ...

Crappie fishing is a signal spring is upon us. When “slabs,” as big crappie are called, are found close to shore, you should also expect turkeys to be gobbling and morel mushrooms to be popping. I’ve ...

CARTERVILLE - Charlie Hogg steered his boat toward Crab Orchard campground. The mid-September night was seasonably cool. The sunset enveloping the lake was postcard quality. The four hours Hogg had ...

Here, fishy, fishy! Every angler has muttered this phrase at one time or another, but beckoning fish can only get you so far—it helps to know with certainty that there are actually fish in the general ...

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 ...

If you consider crappie fishing just a springtime affair, then you don’t know Keith Wray. Last January, the Kerr Lake angler caught 1,800 crappie. Known affectionately on a number of angling Web sites ...

Nothing helps a person forget the heat — at least for a few beats — than a soft thump on the end of a fishing line and the bend in a rod created by a fat slab of a crappie doing its all to pull your ...

Chautauqua Lake offers two sub-species of the Promoxis — the Promoxis niromaculatus (black crappie) and Promoxis (the white crappie). Now, back in the day, we called crappie, calico bass, when in ...