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 ...

Most anglers will agree: Give fish some cover, and they are sure to come. This is especially true of crappie and bass in aging reservoirs where timber, brush and other natural goodies might have ...

Crappie are famously fickle, shifting from shoreline brush to deep timber overnight, yet anglers who understand their ...

Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "Many people go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." In my experience, this rings especially true for crappie fishing. Let's be ...

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 ...