Minnows and crappie fishing go together like stinkbaits and catfishing. Although adult crappie feed on other forage as well, small fish make up most of the crappies’ diet. And because minnows can be ...

Phillip T Salazar of Maxwell caught 20 and 21-inch rainbow trout at Charette Lakes using Salmon Peach PowerBait on July 14. At Conchas Lake, Maycie Rael, 12, of Tucumcari caught her first fish, a ...

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.

Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "Many people go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." In my experience, this rings especially true for crappie fishing. Let's be ...

White bass are fair jigging Pirk Minnows and Tiny Traps over rock piles in 20-30 feet. Crappie are good on minnows and pink tube jigs in 12-15 feet. Channel catfish are good on live bait and cut bait.

Crappie fishing is a signal spring is upon us. When “slabs,” as big crappie are called, are found close to shore, you should also expect turkeys to be gobbling and morel mushrooms to be popping. I’ve ...

BUCHANAN: Water murky; 79-83 degrees; 0.06' high. Black bass are fair on watermelon flukes, Texas rigged watermelon worms, and topwaters off secondary points early. Striped bass are fair on small ...