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It’s prime time to target Ouachita River crappie in the tops. Here’s how one noted angler catches his share of summertime slabs hunkered down in the brush.[…]
It’s prime time to target Ouachita River crappie in the tops. Here’s how one noted angler catches his share of summertime slabs hunkered down in the brush.[…]
My son, Joel, and I set out on a recent fishing trip to compare and contrast the bass-catching capabilities of Zoom Flukes and floating worms. With the test well underway, however, we became distracted by a smoking-hot crappie bite we just couldn’t ignore.[…]
Earlier this year, Nick Young and father Jock beat 100 of the best crappie fishing teams in the South to claim the Crappie Masters Louisiana State Championship on Lake D’Arbonne with two seven-fish limits weighing 24.4 pounds.[…]
Jerry “J.T.” Thompson stared intently at the screen of his 12-inch down-scan unit as he brought the pontoon boat off plane.[…]
“The fish have it backwards when it comes to the weather,” Nick Young said as he cruised his big Ranger down the edge of the boat channel, scanning his electronics for suspended crappie.[…]
When crappie finish their spawning rituals, they head to deeper water and look for two things: Food and cover.[…]
A few years back, the only time Randy Smith ever caught a crappie was by accident.
Now, he dedicates most of his time on the water chasing them.[…]
Toledo Bend’s brush piles normally are filled with hungry crappie this time of year, but something has changed that pattern this spring, one of the reservoir’s veteran guides said.[…]
Stuart Baum loves turning the last calendar page from March to April.[…]
Earlier in the year, crappie on Lake D’Arbonne moved from the 30-foot channels to the 12- to 15-foot flats, then into the shallows to spawn. To catch fish after the spawn, you just need to follow the fish right back out.[…]
A day before last week’s deluge, I hit the Tchefuncte River system with Jeff Bruhl, a Madisonville resident who has been fishing the waterway since Lyndon B. Johnson was president.[…]
Spring crappie techniques are generally pretty standard — single-poling, jigging trees, spider-rigging and the like. But sometimes you can meld crappie methods with a bit of a bass approach and pick up a mess of crappie faster than you imagined.[…]
Seventy-five-year-old Mike Plank arrived at Toledo Bend on Valentines Day to begin a two-month fishing fest, with the goal of catching “whatever is biting.”[…]
When it comes to finding crappie on trees, concentration and patience are important. But nothing can make up for experience.[…]
Across much of the nation, crappie are springtime fish, biting when dogwoods are in bloom and baseballs are popping leather mitts. In South Louisiana, however, where the fish are known as sac-a-lait, slab crappie make their spawning run when winter still refuses to release its chilly grip.[…]
Homer Humphreys is excited to talk about February crappie fishing on Lake Bistineau. The lake is chocked full of big crappie.[…]