Six rods are better than one when it comes to catching summertime crappie at Beaver Lake. Mitch Glenn of Garfield sometimes sets out even more fishing rods for trolling crank baits that lure crappie ...

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 ...

Beaver Lake: Summer heat is neat, if it's fish you like to eat. Catfish and walleye are great on a plate, and Jon Conklin, fishing guide, said both can be caught by trolling nightcrawler rigs behind a ...

As we get ready to close the month of September, my thoughts focus on the large slab crappie in the many backwaters and sloughs all up and down the Mississippi River. In the central and upper Midwest, ...