No matter where you live or fish, imagination and common sense are all you need to catch huge crappies this time of year ...

In my part of the country, the crappie spawn is an event anticipated with barely controlled expectation. The springtime ...

Crappies are moving to shallow spawning areas in dozens of Ohio lakes, with Pymatuning, Mosquito and Berlin reservoirs ...

At the end of the spawn, a lot of people will hang up their tackle for the rest of the year until spring rolls around again. They deprive themselves of some great fishing because crappie do not dry up ...

Although fishing the spring spawn is a practice associated first with crappie in many minds, largemouth bass concentrate a key part of their reproductive year in that season as well. This offers ...

MUNITH — It is the consensus of my crowd that the crappie spawn was 10 days to two weeks behind this spring. Often beginning in April, there was no sign of the sac-au-laits moving shallow until many ...

Anglers who've been fishing most of their lives sometimes learn a lesson. Mike McBride hadn't made more than four casts when a crappie the size of a dinner plate nailed his small jig. His first fish ...

REND LAKE — When the third or fourth slab crappie hit the bottom of Rick Eskew’s livewell, the veteran Rend Lake fishing guide said for anyone to hear, “Not all bushes are created equal.” Although a ...