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 ...

“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 ...

Too many times I've seen a big red bar show up on my flasher below my bait, but after a few seconds of jigging, it just slowly fades away. I call this the Doritos Conundrum. Even if I've just ...

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 ...

Axel Angelow, an 8-year-old from Fairbault, Minnesota, caught a hefty black crappie while fishing with his dad, Ryan Angelow, on Cedar Lake in October 2024. The fish measured 18 inches and weighed 3 ...