DALLAS - According to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department angler preference surveys, crappie rank third among the most sought-after game fish. Black bass rank first and catfish are second. Wally ...

Crappie can be caught year-round in Arkansas. My favorite fishing season, however, is the prespawn period in late February and early March. Crappie are preparing to invade the shallows to reproduce ...

Creating fish attractors is hard work, but they pay dividends for years with dependable fishing. Bill Eldridge of Benton, an avid and accomplished crappie angler, recently invited Ed Kubler and I to ...

My good friend Gary Paris of Quitman has been playing in the dirt, pushing a pen and catching lots of crappie in recent weeks. Paris is a veteran Lake Fork fishing guide who tinkers in the blueberry ...

The first fish I ever caught on an artificial lure was a crappie. It hit a Hildebrandt black and yellow spinner bait cast from a green metal Johnson Century reel mounted on a solid fiberglass rod with ...

Fall hunting seasons are about to jump into full swing. Just don’t make the mistake of stashing that crappie fishing gear in a spot where you can’t get to it in pretty short order. You could miss out ...

Torches and pitchforks would undoubtedly come for you if you ate a 6-pound bass and had the audacity to post about it on social media. The mob’s anger wouldn’t be completely unjustified as large bass ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s inland fisheries division compiled a dozen of the state’s prime crappie destinations, creating a bucket list for anglers. In Texas, largemouth bass are king.