The first fish I ever caught on an artificial lure was a crappie. It hit a Hildebrandt black and yellow spinner bait cast from a green metal Johnson Century reel mounted on a solid fiberglass rod with ...

Panfish like bluegills, goggleyes and crappie often hang out in the thickest, nastiest, grass-choked areas of a lake, and fishing them is impossible with anything other than a fly rod-whipped popper.

Welcome to April! Catching crappie in the spring in Nebraska is as sure a thing to some as the return of the sandhill cranes and the strutting of tom turkeys. These scrappy fighting fish are held in ...