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.

Crappie fishing is currently best near areas still having green weeds by good lake structure. Anglers should use a few ...

In this edition of The Starting Spot: -Stephen Browning has been a bass tournament angler for a long time. He’s had a great career with more significant accomplishments than lots of successful anglers ...

Eben Horton slides open the door of his workshop's furnace. He is greeted with a low roar and a blast of dry heat to his face as he pushes a fifty-four-inch stainless-steel blowpipe into the waiting ...

WIILLMAR, Minn. -- A 65-year-old Minnesota man and a 67-year-old Minnesota bait shop owner have been charged with violations of the state’s laws regulating the trapping and selling of minnows. Jack W.