When you think of a spider bite the first thing that comes to mind isn’t necessarily good. After all, tall tales of black widows, brown recluses and creepy-crawly tarantulas all elicit the same ...

Cane poles or telescoping fiberglass poles are the preferred equipment most West Alabama anglers use to catch crappie when summer arrives. Some try jigging poles that allow them to vary their depth ...

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 ...

There's more than one way to catch crappie on a hot summer day on Beaver Lake. Payton and Tiffany Usey have three tricks up their sleeves for enticing crappie when the lake is warm as bath water and ...

KINKAID LAKE – An unsuccessful walleye trip five years ago made Murphysboro’s Chuck Novara a better crappie fisherman. Novara and a friend were using a bottom-bouncing rig, tipped with night crawlers, ...

WINDSOR - If you love catching crappies (and eating them, too), now's the time to go. And Newnans Lake east of Gainesville is about as good a place as you can target. The fish are abundant, eager to ...