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.

Soft-plastic shrimp, like the Z-Man PrawnstarZ, can prove irresistible to hungry redfish. Courtesy Z-Man Redfish lures come in a variety of styles, all of which are effective thanks to the aggressive ...

Redfish BayGOOD. 75 degrees. Cold fronts are starting to change the pattern. Drum can be caught on reefs or in small ponds in back lakes. Redfish are scattered over oysters ...

What a basic, black hair jig resembles should be left to the imagination of the fish but what it does for you, the angler, ...

I’ve had this old deer tail floating around since I was a kid. It was from my first buck, a half-rack I shot with my Pop-Pop’s 30-30 sitting next to him behind an old field stone wall. Pop mounted the ...