When you think of a spider bite the first thing that comes to mind isn’t necessarily good. After all, tall tales of black widows, brown recluses and creepy-crawly tarantulas all elicit the same ...

Cane poles or telescoping fiberglass poles are the preferred equipment most West Alabama anglers use to catch crappie when summer arrives. Some try jigging poles that allow them to vary their depth ...

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 ...

KINKAID LAKE – An unsuccessful walleye trip five years ago made Murphysboro’s Chuck Novara a better crappie fisherman. Novara and a friend were using a bottom-bouncing rig, tipped with night crawlers, ...

There's more than one way to catch crappie on a hot summer day on Beaver Lake. Payton and Tiffany Usey have three tricks up their sleeves for enticing crappie when the lake is warm as bath water and ...

WINDSOR - If you love catching crappies (and eating them, too), now's the time to go. And Newnans Lake east of Gainesville is about as good a place as you can target. The fish are abundant, eager to ...

Charlie Bunting (left) and his son, Travis, had plenty of baits in the water when they went spider rigging for crappies at Truman Lake. Trolling with a series of long rods, they caught and released ...

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.

It's not generally hard to catch crappies--a bucket of minnows, a cane pole and some cool weather usually will allow rounding up enough to eat on any lake where crappies live. However, loading up an ...

We hear a lot about our most popular crappie lakes, but many lesser known lakes in Arkansas offer top-notch crappie fishing, as well. Depending on location, crappie will begin their pre-spawn ...

Winter will be finished in about six weeks, and crappie anglers are getting excited about the arrival of spring. Depending on where you live, crappie will begin their pre-spawn activities in late ...