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 ...

Crappie are hands down one of my favorite species to target. These abundant, aggressive fish also taste excellent right out of the fryer. Whether you are bobber fishing in the spring, or ice fishing ...

May 2—Conservation officer Darrin Kittelson (International Falls 1) reports the sturgeon keep season on the Rainy River is fully underway with many people attempting to catch a monster pre-historic ...

Crappie fishing is a signal spring is upon. When “slabs”, as big crappie are called, are found close to shore, you should also expect turkeys to be gobbling and morel mushrooms to be popping. I’ve ...

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 ...

For those us who remember when crappie — or as I grew up with calico bass — fishing in the spring was a sure sign that the dog days of summer were just around the corner. The bucket filled with these ...

CATAWBA ISLAND, Ohio - No matter how you say it, crappie fishing is an exceptional spring fling. Around northern Ohio, the white and black crappie are called "crop-pea." Mosey on down to southern Ohio ...

They begin popping up on lakes, ponds and backwater sloughs on the first warmish days of early March, about the same time blooming redbuds and mayhaws throw the first sparks of color in winter-gray ...

On Saturday, fishing enthusiasts of all ages will make their way to Lord Fletcher’s in Spring Park, for the 2016 Minnesota Bound Crappie Contest. “It’s a long tradition in Minnesota, and almost in the ...

Crappie fishing is a signal spring is upon us. When “slabs," as big crappie are called, are found close to shore, you should also expect turkeys gobbling and morel mushrooms popping. I’ve often said ...

Ahh, April is here! Yes! Time for a man’s thought to turn to all kinds of cool things. Stuff like … mowing grass, prepping those flower beds and spring time chores. Baseball and fragrances of all ...