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.

The Alabama Rig has been a very effective and controversial device in the bass fishing world since it's introduction by Andy Doss and Mann's Bait Company in early 2011. The Alabama Rig is not a lure ...

Umbrella rigs — aka Alabama rigs or A-rigs, for short — are all the rage with bass fishermen, but they're proving an option for other game fish as well. The rig, which is designed to trail a number of ...

Winter is striper fishing time. Aaron Jolliff at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers said striped bass are biting well around Prairie Creek park and at Monte Ne. Stripers typically prowl the south half of ...

It's crappie-catching time throughout much of North Florida, and anglers are working many of the region's better waters catching plenty of good-eating "slabs" or "speckled perch." Trolling and ...

Some 20 years ago, on any given summer day, you would've found me along the bank of a Virginia farm pond or waist-deep in the James River. More than likely, my T-shirt was balled up in the back of my ...