NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — Hang around a gaggle of crappie fishermen for a little while and the subject of jig colors will arise. What is the best crappie-jig color? What color catches the biggest crappie?

It's a (very) windy day out here on Rondeau Bay. We're fishing shallow water and jigging among the weeds to catch pike, bass, ...

Every crappie angler has been there. You find a big school on your electronics, catch a few fish quickly, then watch the bite ...

Crappie are biting fair, reports Jon Conklin, fishing guide. Anglers report catching lots of small crappie with minnows or jigs around brush. Crappie must be 10 inches or longer to keep at Beaver Lake ...

Anglers who've been fishing most of their lives sometimes learn a lesson. Mike McBride hadn't made more than four casts when a crappie the size of a dinner plate nailed his small jig. His first fish ...

Almost every veteran crappie catcher can recount times when he was catching fish just as fast as he could toss out a yellow jig, when suddenly, for no apparent reason, the fishing went bust. Different ...

Chautauqua Lake offers two sub-species of the Promoxis — the Promoxis niromaculatus (black crappie) and Promoxis (the white crappie). Now, back in the day, we called crappie, calico bass, when in ...

Black bass are scattered at all depths and at all areas of the lake. That can make for tough fishing, said Reece Jones at ...

Here is the latest Fishing Report as provided by Texas Parks and Wildlife for Nov. 1.

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