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Crappie Fishing

Crappie fishing in the wind

Crappie anglers at the recent Crappie Masters Florida State Championship had to fight cold weather and high winds in their effort to catch a stringer of crappie. On Sunday, the final day winds were blowing […]

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Yamaha Boating & Fishing Tips

Lost Fish Can Be Attributed To Rod Selection

Yamaha Pro Todd Faircloth Matches Rod Actions to Specific Lures. Among his contemporaries in professional bass fishing, Todd Faircloth rates as one of the most consistent anglers in the sport, regularly finishing well and always […]

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Yamaha Boating & Fishing Tips

How to Clean Striped Bass Like a Pro

Make this great gamefish into great table fare. Striped bass are the most sought after gamefish on the East Coast. So many anglers fish for them, especially during the spring and fall migrations from their […]

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Yamaha Boating & Fishing Tips

Here’s The Skinny on Jack Plates

If you run any kind of skiff or bass boat in shallow water, consider this column a must-read. Electro-hydraulic jack plates are add-on brackets that provide two more adjustability dimensions to your outboard engine trim: […]

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Panfish Fishing

Bladed Jigs for Fall Crappie

If your crappie tackle box doesn’t have bladed jigs, like the Road Runner Original Marabou Jig and the Bass Pro Shops Tube Stump Jumper Jigs, you’re missing a serious slab-catching bait. The design of this […]

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Panfish Fishing

FINDING CRAPPIES IN SHALLOW WATER

It is no secret that crappie relate to structure. Finding good structure for them in shallow lakes can be difficult. Russ Bailey, veteran crappie angler, has developed a pattern for shallow water lakes. He spends […]

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Panfish Fishing

Crappies In The Depression

Crappies are an early season favorite for good reason; they’re not that hard to find and readily bite. Crappies provide a great opportunity for getting the open water season underway. They are easily caught from […]

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Panfish Fishing

Summer bream on fly

Bluegill, redbreast sunfish and warmouth are among the species that go by the generic name of bream (aka brim). Whether anglers are catching them for fun or for the dinner table, bream are a worthy […]

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Panfish Fishing

Crappies Without Minnows

Crappie anglers love live minnows. Historically minnows have been known as the bait of choice for catching crappie. Minnows have wiggle, they have taste and they have smell. Crappies always have and always will be […]

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Panfish Fishing

Big Hill Reservoir, Parsons Kansas

A recent trip to Parsons Kansas revealed some laid-back, enjoyable, fun fishing. The town of 11,000 people has a great, revitalized main street. An F3 tornado hit the town in 2000 so there is a […]

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Panfish Fishing

Adapt, change or fail with fish.

From our Friend TJ Stallings – The water temperature was down five-degrees. The water was muddy too. Those are tough conditions, especially when seeking “picture” quality fish. Fortunately I was with Crappiemasters Pro, Jonathon Phillips.

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Panfish Fishing

Catch More Cold-Water Crappies this Spring

As winter fades slowly into spring, crappies and other panfish begin a predictable transition from thermally stable, deep water basins towards warming shallows where the food web of the lake is beginning to bloom. This […]

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Panfish Fishing

Spring crappie action is red hot

While the fruit trees are blooming, the gobblers are booming and the crappie are ripe for the picking. Roy Gentry pitched a jig and cork rig near a stick up, twitched it slightly and watched […]

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Panfish Fishing

Golden Words about Crappie

In the next edition of CrappieNOW Keith Sutton shares some of his knowledge on crappie fishing. Since I was a young boy, I have loved books. It is quite natural that this is so, for […]

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Panfish Fishing

Finding Big Crappies

Biologists have studied crappie for years, including where they grow the largest.  A study done in South Dakota of both white and black crappie found that they grow the slowest in small impoundments and the […]

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Panfish Fishing

FISHING ILLINOIS STRIP PITS

Time was when strip mined land was a story of environmental devastation.  Now they have become successful habitat restoration.  The woodlands, healthy grasslands and abundant water provide outdoor recreation for the public. Most of the […]

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Crappie Fishing

MISSISSIPPI CRAPPIE FISHING

With the expansion of competitive crappie fishing in southeastern United States the subject of Mississippi fishing keeps coming up. Each year anglers catch huge fish in the waters of this state.  The northwestern corner of […]

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Panfish Fishing

SPRING RUN WHITE BASS

Lake Shelbyville is a natural for white bass.  White bass thrive in large, open-water impoundments containing an abundance of shad, their favorite forage fish. This 11,000-plus acre impoundment is located in Shelby and Moultrie counties […]

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Panfish Fishing

Tips for Catching White Bass

When water temperatures reach the low 50s, whites start moving upstream, out of the lakes and reservoirs, until they reach a dam or other obstacle that blocks their travel. Here the white bass stack up […]

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Panfish Fishing

CRAPPIE FISHING AND THE DOGWOODS

The blooming of the Dogwood trees signals the crappie spawning period.  The rest of the forest is full of dark shafts of wood rising toward the sun.  On them are small buds and the beginnings […]

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Panfish Fishing

Johnson Crappie Buster

Designed to put more slabs in the boat, Johnson™ Crappie Buster baits come in six unique offerings suited for catching crappie across the country in the variety of waters these fish call home.  Crappie Buster […]

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Panfish Fishing

As Fall Heads Target Panfish

Fishing, or more accurately “catching,” is about to bust wide open in south Georgia rivers, thanks to river levels dropping within the banks, according to personnel with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources […]

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Panfish Fishing

You Can Catch ‘em! Crappies

This may come as a surprise – open-water crappie season lasts far longer than April and May. It can be year round. Sure, boats crowd the shallows when crappies are spawning and the morel mushrooms […]

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Panfish Fishing

Brush Pile Bingo For Fall Crappie

A recent road trip to North Carolina and the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association annual meeting found me in Georgia on my way back home to Florida. I had an invitation to fish some brush piles […]

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Panfish Fishing

Slabs Now and Later

Fall is prime time to catch big numbers of slab crappies and prepare for ice fishing in the process. It’s easy, too. Armed with a few basic tenets of autumn fish location and behavior, you […]

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Panfish Fishing

Fall For Panfish

I’ve said it so many times, and I don’t like to be redundant, but the autumn period is a wonderful time to go fishing for pretty much any specie of gamefish that swims in the […]

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Panfish Fishing

State Record Fish In Creston

Jefferson Post reported 1st: It was a team effort that landed 13-year-old Victoria Navaroli a state record fish from a private pond in Creston.  In the early morning hours of July 12, the 13-year-old Charlotte […]

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Panfish Fishing

Presentations for Crappie

The seemingly endless varieties of crappie fishing presentations produce good fishing in the Prairie State. Here are some to help you boat more crappies this year. Early season crappie fishing is highly dependent upon weather […]