Basically, it's turning a spinning rod into a bow to shoot a crappie jig up under the decking of residential docks, and it's a deadly tactic throughout cool weather. "Just about any dock that has ...

Used this way, a minnow-tipped weedless jig is more durable. Sometimes a bobber and bait are all that’s needed to hit crappie pay dirt. This is especially true when crappies are feeding in ...

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.

Winters is in the jig-making business, especially the kind that crappies devour. His Jetaco firm has a franchise to make the first lead-free crappie jig from bismuth, a non-toxic element now being ...

Double jig crappie action! Learn effective techniques for catching crappie using a double jig rig. Justice Kagan denies emergency appeal to halt deportation of Mexican nationals claiming asylum ...

Previously, given a lack of quality, technique-specific crappie rods, most of us simply settled for generic “ultralight” rods—nearly always insufficient by several octaves. Today, techniques like dock ...

The Midwest crappie fishing scene took a major hit earlier this week as a popular northeast Kansas lure manufacturer closed its doors. Topeka’s Brandon Manis, owner of Top Secret Jig Company ...

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 of the morning put up a splashing fight beside the boat before it gave ...

I got one pole in the water and started tying a jig on another. The first pole bowed underneath the boat. I netted the huge crappie and dropped the jig back in the water. Same scenario again.

This past week I got zapped twice using a 1-inch crappie tube rigged on a 1/32-ounce tube jig. I decided to check out some of my favorite dock slips that have produced early fall crappie in the past.