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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Charlie Bunting (left) and his son, Travis, had plenty of baits in the water when they went spider rigging for crappies at Truman Lake. Trolling with a series of long rods, they caught and released ...

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 ...

If you're a crappie angler looking for a local repository of competition and knowledge, you might take a look at the Central Arkansas Crappie Association. Jason Westerberg of Conway is president of ...

Eagle Lake and Lake Washington are two of the best crappie fisheries to be found, and right now they are hot. "The fish are just starting to stage up getting ready for the spawn," said Brad Chappell ...