but he notes that it’s essential to use light 2- or 3-pound monofilament to detect subtle bites and avoid line twist. Kloet likes to tip his Jigging Rap with a fathead-minnow head, as crappie ...

Eight-year-old Axel Angelow set a Minnesota state record with a 3-pound, 13-ounce black crappie caught on Cedar Lake.

After showing the fish off to others, then decided they better have it weighed. So they headed to a nearby meat market, where the crappie weighed 3.97 pounds on certified scales. Don took a photo of ...

Teresa Croy, of Ottawa, caught a white crappie weighing 3.91 pounds from a pond at the Glandorf Rod and Gun Club in Putnam County, narrowly eclipsing the weight of the former state record-holder.

The lack of power plant influences over Lake Sangchris water temperatures is expected to have an effect on the lake’s fish.

Just ask an Ottawa woman who now holds the Ohio state record after catching a 3.91-pound crappie last fall. According to the Ohio Division of Wildlife, a 29-year Ohio state record for white ...