...or you've limited out too early and don't want to go home and do yardwork, there should be some awesome sunfish and crappie action to be had. With live bait being tough to get (we will probably be limited to fat heads and crawlers) be sure to have...

...definitely on. I know people are ready to get the boats out but there is nothing more exciting than a watching a huge slab crappie look at your bait 2 feet below your feet, and one pull and they're in the ice. Or watching a northern come in and a split...

...100 to 20 and bag and possession limits were also reduced for crappie, sunfish and lake trout. Statewide walleye and northern...largemouth and smallmouth bass, pike, bluegill, and black crappie populations in the area has improved." Not only are fish...

...Cullen, Sylvan and Mission lakes are putting out some fish but it hasn't been a real hot bite. There has been a good crappie bite on Clark Lake with a lot of little ones mixed in. Although the sunfish are starting to go shallow the crappies we have...

...all." Upper Red Lake is a most unusual site for a crappie boom. To crappie aficionados it doesn't conjure images of heaven...true to its fickle nature, nature has created a crappie renaissance where none had existed. Ask Babe Winkelman...

RED LAKE (AP) -- It's crappie fever. It's spreading. And sprawling...Lemke, 21, Faribault. Although the crappie bite can be hot at certain times and...jigs to a northern, but found the crappie bite almost nonexistent -- until he...

...Lake. He is among thousands of anglers with crappie fever who have swarmed to the lake in recent...Originally Morrison came strictly to fish. "I'm a crappie fisherman, and this is a crappie mecca," he said. But it soon dawned on him...

...deep to shallow, when trying to predict crappie movements. Shallow water is the colder...visible and sensitive enough to signal a crappie taking a minnow. Larger floats might...the slip-float rig until you catch a crappie. Other fish will be at that same depth...

...which presently is one of the best crappie lakes in the nation. Pounders are plentiful...depleted the lake's walleyes. The crappie bonanza should last until nature redresses the balance. Other good crappie waters are the Gull Lake chain, the...

...and drop a NO-SNAGG jig with a small, crappie minnow into spaces between the branches...yet low enough to allow a light biting crappie to pull it under easily. During especially...short of the last count, set the hook. A crappie took it was it fell. Counting down also...