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.

Wacky rigs are ideal for throwing around docks during the post spawn. A wacky rig is perhaps the most subtle, natural, and non-invasive presentation bass anglers use. It’s a very slow and finessed ...

Capt. Markus Borsman-Gneist, of Mayhem charters in Stuart, demonstrates how to tie a dropper-loop rig, often called a "chicken" rig, to fish for red snapper. VIDEO: TCPalm's Boys Athlete of the Week ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A big rig carrying frozen chicken collided ...

The free rig is a cross between the ever-popular Texas rig and the seemingly forgotten Carolina rig. As far as bass fishing techniques go, it doesn’t get much hype, but occasionally sees some ...

If you can't fish with cut bait, you can always use chicken liver when fishing for catfish. Very simply, I got a piece of ...

One of my Southern fishing friends is about six-foot one and weighs around 210 lbs. His arms and leg muscles look as firm as bricks and his shoulders are as broad as a twenty-year old tree. But in ...

Long before forward-facing sonar was the hot button issue in fishing, the Alabama rig was causing waves for many of the same reasons. The ultimate balance of pain versus reward, this divisive bass ...