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.

Long before forward-facing sonar was the hot button issue in fishing, the Alabama rig was causing waves for many of the same ...

Well folks, this is the Thanksgiving issue of Scales and Tales. The first thing to do is to tell everyone how thankful I am ...