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.

Fall hunting seasons are about to jump into full swing. Just don’t make the mistake of stashing that crappie fishing gear in a spot where you can’t get to it in pretty short order. You could miss out ...

The simple joy of it is this — when the bobber goes under, yank it. Kenneth Whitehead of Red Dirt Roots TV had a tip on an early fall crappie spot this week and we grabbed a half-pound of medium-large ...

For Midwest Finesse fishing enthusiasts, one name typically stands out among the most influential — Ned Kehde. The renowned outdoors writer and angler from Lawrence is the namesake of the Ned Rig, a ...

If you’ve been paying attention for the past month or so, one fishing setup keeps popping up in a lot of the columns and stories I’ve been writing: the Ned Rig. Anglers have been having a great amount ...