Crappie are famously fickle, shifting from shoreline brush to deep timber overnight, yet anglers who understand their ...

Back bays and shallow coves with sheltered cover typically provide the best prespawn/spawn crappie areas. Oxbow lakes or flooded river backwaters are classic examples. Crappies will hold along the ...

From area lakes to the turkey woods, warmer days with more hours of sunshine have bass, crappie and wild turkeys looking forward to spring as reliably as the outdoorsmen who chase them. In area lakes, ...

To report the most up-to-date information on fishing in the Midstate, The Tennessean has asked for contributions from several avid anglers. They will report on their latest trips as well as offer tips ...

In early winter, finding crappies is as easy as finding green aquatic vegetation. Big slabs will be right up in the greenery, where they not only find abundant foot, but cover, both for ambushing ...

Even though our April temperatures and weather is sporadic and up and down, we are fast approaching the crappie spawn in central Maryland and very soon fish will be shallow and accessible to even the ...

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 ...

Spring crappie fishing is in full swing and the succulent panfish are moving to the shallows for spawning. This is an off-and-on process that varies with weather patterns. The fish back off when a ...

Officially, the first day of summer is still 18 days away, but the bass, crappie and bream in local waters have already moved into the patterns they’ll follow until fall arrives. “They’re catching big ...

Most would take being called the "Crappie Man" as an insult. Not Lake Anna fishing guide Chris Craft, who was given the moniker by longtime outdoors writer Jim Brewer. Born a bass fisherman on the ...

Ahh, April is here! Yes! Time for a man’s thought to turn to all kinds of cool things. Stuff like … mowing grass, prepping those flower beds and spring time chores. Baseball and fragrances of all ...