Find and catch early-season crappie with this step-by-step guide to targeting spawning slabs from ice-out through spawn. In regions that receive ice cover, crappies spend the winter suspended over ...

The minnows were jumping like tiny shooting stars. You saw them, but just barely. Across the greater part of the bay, these paper-clip size prey were fleeing from ...

Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "Many people go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." In my experience, this rings especially true for crappie fishing. Let's be ...

THREE RIVERS — Veteran crappie fishing guide Bud Council never served in the British Army, but he does apply the English military’s adage of “7 Ps” to his Choke Canyon Reservoir angling tactics every ...

I knew the odds would be just a little, if not a whole lot, on my side as I turned the alarm off at 5 a.m. last week. A weather change had come, and the morning low was 58 degrees, a far cry from the ...

Editor's note: Dick Martin is on vacation this week. Here is a previously published column of his. Take a survey of the favorite fish sought by Buckeye anglers, and you'll find close competition ...