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 ...

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 ...

Before they ever handle a rod and reel, many anglers learn to fish with a long pole and a length of fishing line. For some, the rod is merely a long stalk of cane. The cane might be cured and ...

Brandon Fulgham (right) holds a crappie for a photographer while he and Brad Chappell (left) were long-line trolling on Oologah Lake on Monday. Long-lining is a technique that has become popular with ...

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 ...

Crappie are hands down one of my favorite species to target. These abundant, aggressive fish also taste excellent right out of the fryer. Whether you are bobber fishing in the spring, or ice fishing ...

Fishing with guide Tony Adams usually ends with a half-day stringer of crappie headed from the live well and into the cooler with ice for the truck ride home. Photo courtesy of Forrest Fisher We all ...

OK, Shenango Lake is not my favorite lake of northwest Pa.’s big three: those being Pymatuning and Conneaut in Crawford County and finally Shenango in Mercer County. Shenango is a river-impounded lake ...