After the original Mister Twister came onto the market, I did not tie a bucktail jig for a couple of years. Then I ran out of bucktail jigs and realized that they had not been replaced by soft plastic ...

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.

Almost every veteran crappie catcher can recount times when he was catching fish just as fast as he could toss out a yellow jig, when suddenly, for no apparent reason, the fishing went bust. Different ...

Almost every Arkansas angler loves to catch a big mess of good-eating crappie. Winter provides a great time to do this. Crappie feed actively this season and often gather in large schools when the ...

First it's walleye, then white bass. Now it's crappie that brings excited anglers to waters large and small. May is when crappie move shallow to spawn and become easier to catch. Any bush, branch or ...