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.

Some 20 years ago, on any given summer day, you would've found me along the bank of a Virginia farm pond or waist-deep in the James River. More than likely, my T-shirt was balled up in the back of my ...

Water level is 1.03 feet low and stained to clear. Water temperature in the low 80s. Fishing guide Randy Dearman says bass fishing has been good to three pounds on humps in 18 feet of water, hitting ...

Athens — GOOD. Water clear; 81-83 degrees; 0.33 feet above pool. Bass are good on grass edges throwing small swimbaits and moving baits, or on brush piles 20 feet deep with jigs, Carolina rigs, and ...

Water level is 2 inches high and fairly clear. Water temperature in the low 80s. Crappie guide Blake Oestreich says fishing has been excellent. Fish are on the move deeper and into more of a summer ...