Pit

Fish live in an overwhelming number and type of aquatic communities throughout North America. The word community is a good description because it suggests they adapt to and function within their local...View article

Classifying lake, river, and reservoir types is important because crappies in hill-land reservoirs in the South behave much the same as crappies in hill-land reservoirs in the North, East, or West....View article

Across the continent, savvy anglers recognize the potential of plying the tepid waters that flow from power plants. In Minnesota, for example, anglers venture to the “Hot Pond” at Lake Pokegama...View article

Sometimes it all comes together—the right location and presentation choices merge, making for good catches of crappies. Once it’s over, crappies become enigmatic, being difficult to find or ignoring...View article

A hot bite, going gangbusters a few minutes ago, is now seemingly dead. Crappies were hitting minnows on Aberdeen hooks before the float could even settle and stand up. One on every cast. Happens every...View article

It doesn't seem long ago that crappie fishing conjured pastoral images of rural anglers with simple tackle, wielding cane poles on oxbow lakes and ponds or lobbing minnows at brushpiles and stumps on...View article