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.

It’s the battle every angler loves to debate: will lures or live bait bring in the big catch? Join us as we put both to the ...

We're baited up with the T-Turn Pre-Tied Bait Rig, model number 1A fishing for panfish. Taking advantage of the water current ...

LIVE BAIT is cheating. If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it 10,000 times. The level of cheating, of course, varies by species and age. Any child under 15 can use live bait for whatever he or she wants.

Would you like to reduce the number of ticks in your yard? If you’re anything like me, you just screamed “YES!” to that question. Ticks are nefarious parasites who feed on animal blood — everyone from ...

As happens tens of thousands of times each year, a Texas angler walks into a bait shop, fishes a thin cardboard box or plastic bag holding a pound or so of frozen shrimp from the stack in the store’s ...