These are wonderful times to be a crappie fan; we finally have quality, dedicated crappie rods and gear. Creative anglers and companies are crafting exciting new tackle, lures, and equipment, at last ...

In the south Crappie are already pushed up shallow and other parts of the country aren’t far behind. That means it’s time to tie on a jig and head to your favorite brush pile. If you need a new rod, ...

Why dangle one minnow in front of a crappie's nose when you can jiggle a whole school of them? That's the idea behind the spider rig, a system that gets crappie to bite at Beaver Lake all year long. A ...

My first experience with ultra-long crappie rods happened nearly 20 years ago, when I lived in central Missouri. At the time, my knowledge of crappie fishing was fairly rudimentary — rig a No. 6 ...

The cluster of thin, bone-like branches poking just above the water surface looked much like the dozens of other such skeletons of drowned trees we'd zipped past on the chilly boat ride up the creek.

ROCHESTER — About 25 years ago, my boss took me crappie fishing on Mark Twain Lake in north-central Missouri. It's a massive reservoir, and back then it featured countless bays filled with flooded ...