Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

Some 20 years ago, on any given summer day, you would've found me along the bank of a Virginia farm pond or waist-deep in the James River. More than likely, my T-shirt was balled up in the back of my ...

Water level is 4.33 feet low and clear. Water temperature in low 90s. Crappie guide Blake Oestreich says fishing is good, fish are on the move due to draw down. Minnows working best around timber and ...