Try vertical-jigging these lures when crappie are holding deeper, and switch to the float as they move into the shallows. Along with small tubes and jigs, small, suspending minnow baits also work ...

Black bass to 4.50 pounds are excellent on buzz baits and swimbaits in the grass and weeds, or with crankbaits off the rocks in 5-10 feet around the rock cuts. Crappie are fair around docks 9 feet ...

“We never thought about it being a record fish, but we knew it was a big crappie,” Teresa says. “We put it in a bucket with water and went back to fishing. But pretty soon, we decided to leave. We ...