Cole & Jay film as she hooks a personal best crappie using jig and bobber.

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.

Fall fishing can be a time of feast or famine as water temperatures begin to descend along with additional climatic factors such as lake levels, water flows, and baitfish migrations. One factor that ...