We're boatless today, fishing on the shore lines with the boatless angler himself, rigged up with an easy pre-tied catfish ...

Fishing micro umbrella rigs for monster crappie actually worked.

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

It was as if someone flipped a switch to the “on” position. After weeks of tough fishing from late August into early October, ...