My first experience with ultra-long crappie rods happened nearly 20 years ago, when I lived in central Missouri. At the time, my knowledge of crappie fishing was fairly rudimentary — rig a No. 6 ...

The cluster of thin, bone-like branches poking just above the water surface looked much like the dozens of other such skeletons of drowned trees we'd zipped past on the chilly boat ride up the creek.

Learn when crappie spawn, where to find them, and the best lures to use. Here's what you need to know to catch spring crappie.

Cope’s Rod and Tackle reported decent bass action with finesse techniques near rocky structure and main lake points with plastics on a shakey head or drop-shot. Spooning over the shad schools in deep ...

The tiny red and white bobber tipped over on its side. That was the signal to set the hook. I lifted the rod tip and put tension on the line. I felt the fish struggling and I cranked it in, lifting it ...

Chautauqua Lake offers two sub-species of the Promoxis — the Promoxis niromaculatus (black crappie) and Promoxis (the white crappie). Now, back in the day, we called crappie, calico bass, when in ...

April is an outdoorsman's paradise in Oklahoma. Turkey hunting begins, the morel mushrooms are popping up from the ground, and the fish are biting. In April, crappie move into the shallow water along ...