It was the biggest crappie I had ever seen: A silvery, black-spotted slab my cousin, Brad, pulled out of a freeway lake near Kalama, Wash. That was almost 30 years ago. I still haven’t laid eyes on a ...

“Lay the fly on the water. Strip line out. That’s right. Now shake the rod tip.” That’s fly-fishing. These kids — the 4-year-old grandson and the 6-year-old granddaughter — can cast a fly as well as ...

My fishing and hunting buddy Albert Wood has let the word out that the crappie bite is on. Albert did very well at a public lake recently on his special pattern for crappie, the Coyote. In Albert's ...

Up a creek, but with a paddle, is a good thing when the crappie are biting. Pine Creek Hollow is a hot spot for crappie on the south end of Beaver Lake during spring. Compared to other creek arms at ...

I've gotten some strange looks out on the water this spring and summer. People have said things like "what is that rod you're holding?" or "are you catching those white perch on a popping bug?" or ...

Decisions, decisions. If you’re a fly angler, you have lots to make. Yes, there are plenty of different lures on tackle-shop shelves, but not nearly as many as there are different fly patterns in well ...

Kentucky Lake is renowned for its tremendous crappie population, and each spring anglers from all across America head to the Big Pond to sample fishing for slab crappie. Some notice that the crappie ...

Mid April, when the weather is gentle and the fish bite, is the best time to discover Arkansas. Rusty Pruitt and I took some time out Wednesday to try our hands at catching crappie and panfish at Lake ...