River backwaters offer safe ice and predictable winter habitat. Learn how to locate, fish, and stay safe while ice fishing for slab crappies.

In early winter, finding crappies is as easy as finding green aquatic vegetation. Big slabs will be right up in the greenery, where they not only find abundant foot, but cover, both for ambushing ...

Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "Many people go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." In my experience, this rings especially true for crappie fishing. Let's be ...

Six rods are better than one when it comes to catching summertime crappie at Beaver Lake. Mitch Glenn of Garfield sometimes sets out even more fishing rods for trolling crank baits that lure crappie ...