Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

Warm days of early fall are well behind us and the leaves have fallen, but there is still a lot of good fishing to be had in ...

Mostly sunny, with a high near 57. Breezy, with a north northwest wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Mostly clear, with a low around 29. Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as ...