How to find and catch spawning crappies in shallow water this spring using these proven tips, baits, and locations to maximize your early-season crappie bite ...

Where Do Crappies Go After Ice-Out? In regions that receive ice cover, crappies spend the winter suspended over deep holes because oxygen levels in the shallows are depleted. But as ice melts, oxygen ...

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 ...

Bassmaster veteran Tom Hamlin says he reeled in a ton of crappie on Lake Sinclair Wednesday, which brought him to this week's tip. Hamlin says because of the lingering cold weather the fish have put ...

It’s no secret that forward-facing sonar (FFS) is an incredibly effective tool for catching crappie. The best crappie lures and crappie rods are also not a secret. But, the FFS settings to clearly see ...

SPRING PARK, Minn. — Spring is finally here, and that means the fish are hungry and biting. It's perfect timing for the 53rd year for the Minnesota Bound Crappie Contest on Lake Minnetonka. Anglers of ...

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 ...