With a few tips and tactics, you can start catching crappie year-round ... Regardless of when it begins, anglers have a big window to target huge concentrations of fish during the pre-spawn ...

Catching crappie in the spring is as sure a thing to some as the return of the sandhill cranes. These scrappy fighting fish ...

Not only does shallow water and dark colorations on the fish make catching them this time of year unique ... but I find the best success this time of year finessing lightweight jigs on top of big ...

They are using large, aggressive baits to attract fish from long distances, and what they are discovering is sometimes big ...

And I’m like, ‘That ain’t no crappie.’ I knew it wasn’t a ... Thankfully, Kyler says, the big largemouth wore itself out just before it reached the nearest dock piling, which would have been game over ...

Let's have fun catching crappie and harvest the ones we ... is social media shaming anglers that post photos of keeping big crappie, Yung said. "That has really taken off in the crappie community ...