If you're already tired of sitting in a deer stand or you have all the deer meat you need in your freezer and you're ready to put some crappie in your boat, you can't go wrong at Eagle Lake or Ross ...

A great thing about crappies, from an angler's perspective, is that, in springtime, under the right circumstances, they can be caught fairly readily in shallow water, providing lasting memories on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mar. 17—WASKISH, Minn. — It's not going to match the explosion of the late '90s and early 2000s, but there's been a resurgence of crappies this winter on Upper Red Lake. Big time. "It was amazing; ...

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 ...

Those who have read the statewide fishing report recently probably feel like they have read the words "crappie fair on minnows and jigs" at least a thousand times. That may be a bit of an exaggeration ...

Based on DNR creel surveys, anglers landed an estimated 15,000 crappies this winter on Upper Red, compared with about 900 crappies, on average, over the previous 10 winters or more. Crappies are a ...