Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

It’s hot as hell. You’re sweaty and thirsty and hungry and now you have to tie on a new hook. You can’t tie the hook because you can’t see and your readers are over there between the cooler and bait ...

Oregon is rethinking its barbless hook requirement in the lower Willamette River and anglers may have sea lions to thank. Biologists for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will ask the Fish ...