In early winter, finding crappies is as easy as finding green aquatic vegetation. Big slabs will be right up in the greenery, where they not only find abundant foot, but cover, both for ambushing ...

The Minnesota DNR is researching how deepwater angling affects crappie barotrauma. The Minnesota DNR studied crappie populations, examining the impact of deepwater angling on barotrauma. Methods ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trust issues have always been a problem in fisheries science. Anglers the world over have often felt like their observations on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In my part of the country, the crappie spawn is an event anticipated with barely controlled expectation. The springtime mating ...

Many very accomplished and well-known anglers have made the observation that crappies are a mysterious fish. In mid and late summer in a good number of lakes, they seem to disappear from areas where ...