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.

UNION HALL - Rex Smith must be crazy. Why else would this man, whom I consider a good friend, call me Tuesday afternoon to say he was catching the heck out of stripers at Smith Mountain Lake? "You ...

Live bait is working best to catch striped bass. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, recommends fishing for stripers between Rocky Branch and Hickory Creek parks. Trolling with brood minnows or umbrella rigs ...

Last fall, Paul Elias shook the bass fishing industry when he won the FLW Tour Open on Lake Guntersville using the Alabama rig. It has been quite some time since one lure — or maybe I should say five ...