Panfish like bluegills, goggleyes and crappie often hang out in the thickest, nastiest, grass-choked areas of a lake, and fishing them is impossible with anything other than a fly rod-whipped popper.

We hit the frozen waters of West Virginia in search of massive crappie slabs—and they did not disappoint! Every drop brought ...

Welcome to April! Catching crappie in the spring in Nebraska is as sure a thing to some as the return of the sandhill cranes and the strutting of tom turkeys. These scrappy fighting fish are held in ...