When you think of a spider bite the first thing that comes to mind isn’t necessarily good. After all, tall tales of black widows, brown recluses and creepy-crawly tarantulas all elicit the same ...

Why dangle one minnow in front of a crappie's nose when you can jiggle a whole school of them? That's the idea behind the spider rig, a system that gets crappie to bite at Beaver Lake all year long. A ...

Cane poles or telescoping fiberglass poles are the preferred equipment most West Alabama anglers use to catch crappie when summer arrives. Some try jigging poles that allow them to vary their depth ...

Crappie fishermen listen up. I found a new product that's amazingly simple to use and easy to adjust. A few days ago a friend of mine, professional bass and crappie fisherman Don Terry of Jackson, ...

There's more than one way to catch crappie on a hot summer day on Beaver Lake. Payton and Tiffany Usey have three tricks up their sleeves for enticing crappie when the lake is warm as bath water and ...

WINDSOR - If you love catching crappies (and eating them, too), now's the time to go. And Newnans Lake east of Gainesville is about as good a place as you can target. The fish are abundant, eager to ...

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.