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.

The heat is truly on here in Southwest Florida. While it is still springtime and the month of May, southeasterly trade winds, ambient heat, warming Gulf water and potent afternoon thunderstorms are ...

If there's one inshore fish most Lowcountry anglers would love to catch, it's probably a tarpon. Tarpon can reach well over 100 pounds in South Carolina waters (the state record is 154 pounds, 10 ...

We’re not here to take sides. We’re not here to end the debate forever. We are, however, here to say that there are times when rigging with bait—either live or dead—will outfish artificial lures, even ...

When you absolutely, positively have to catch a fish, live bait is the only way to go, period. While artificial lures are variously new, improved, or otherwise hyped worldwide, the lowly worm and its ...