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.

My fishing guide, Shiloh Patterson, vividly remembers the first time he hooked a king salmon back in 1997. The fight lasted only 10 seconds before his line snapped, but it was all he could talk about ...

Nestled along the South Carolina-Georgia border sits a slice of paradise that somehow remains one of the Palmetto State’s best-kept secrets. Lake Hartwell State Park in Fair Play offers the kind of ...

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

Angela Perea at Lake Fayetteville Marina recommends using plastic worms, jig and pigs or spinner baits for black bass. Top-water lures may work at dawn and dusk. Bluegill and redear are biting worms.

Crappie can be a finicky fish during fall. The tasty panfish sometimes bite so light an angler may never know a crappie has taken the bait. Mike McBride of Winslow has a way of dealing with the ...

Here you’ll find more winners from our fishing gear tests that range from fly rods for trout to forward facing sonar. Hatch Outdoors has only been on the scene for about 20 years. But in that ...

Thinking that maybe bass fishing would be a good school sport?You don't need a bass boat or a lot of gear to join one of New Hampshire High School Athletic Association's newest sport offerings.On Aug.