By this time of the summer, most people have abandoned ... small white jigs or yellow jigs, tipped with crappie minnows. Most lakes in southern Minnesota are bowl- shaped and relatively shallow.

A hunting guide at nearby Hidden Lakes Hunting Resort during the cold weather months, the Yantis native is taking his avocation of crappie fishing to a summer vocation. We were sitting on one of ...

It's a typical summer pattern for most Texas crappie chasers during summer months. "Once the spawn's over, the crappie will move to the grass beds for awhile," Mike Wheatley explained.

Although summer doesn’t officially arrive on the calendar until June 20 this year, the fish on Kentucky Lake always seem to enter their summer patterns a bit earlier. In fact, ...

Officially, the first day of summer is still 18 days away, but the bass, crappie and bream in local waters have already moved into the patterns they’ll follow until fall arrives. “They’re ...

Crappie fishing during the peak of summer when the heat index is 105 degrees ... Understanding how weather patterns affect crappie fishing is a skill that takes a lot of time on the water to ...