Why dangle one minnow in front of a crappie's nose when you can jiggle a whole school of them? That's the idea behind the spider rig, a system that gets crappie to bite at Beaver Lake all year long. A ...

There's more than one way to catch crappie on a hot summer day on Beaver Lake. Payton and Tiffany Usey have three tricks up their sleeves for enticing crappie when the lake is warm as bath water and ...

When you think of a spider bite the first thing that comes to mind isn’t necessarily good. After all, tall tales of black widows, brown recluses and creepy-crawly tarantulas all elicit the same ...

WINDSOR - If you love catching crappies (and eating them, too), now's the time to go. And Newnans Lake east of Gainesville is about as good a place as you can target. The fish are abundant, eager to ...

Charlie Bunting (left) and his son, Travis, had plenty of baits in the water when they went spider rigging for crappies at Truman Lake. Trolling with a series of long rods, they caught and released ...

There are many givens in life. People like to argue. Ford versus Chevy is common and even paper versus plastic is often-heard debate. Similar battles are fought in the fishing world, too. Fiberglass ...