River backwaters offer safe ice and predictable winter habitat. Learn how to locate, fish, and stay safe while ice fishing for slab crappies.

Fishing with guide Tony Adams usually ends with a half-day stringer of crappie headed from the live well and into the cooler with ice for the truck ride home. Photo courtesy of Forrest Fisher We all ...

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After a prize bass? Or are crappies or muskies more to your taste? Alum Creek Lake has long been known as a largemouth bass destination, but it has recently gained a reputation for great smallmouth ...

Fishing is slowly moving from summer to fall methods. Reece Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers said black bass are biting jig and pigs, plastic worms and top-water lures. Buzz baits are a good ...

Axel Angelow, an 8-year-old from Fairbault, Minnesota, caught a hefty black crappie while fishing with his dad, Ryan Angelow, on Cedar Lake in October 2024. The fish measured 18 inches and weighed 3 ...

Beaver Lake: Typical winter lures are in play for black bass fishing, said Reece Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers. Alabama rigs, jerk baits, swim baits and jig and pigs are all good to use.

Hope you all have been enjoying the rain. Apparently we need it, as our summer drought persists. The rain has definitely improved the trails. I got out Wednesday evening to find a flying Phil’s ...

Jerry Porter and pals Ron and Rodney Shelton were having a banner morning of spring-spawning crappie action on 1,000-acre East Lynn Lake on May 6. It was only 9 a.m. when Porter hooked a fish bigger ...